Greek Literature

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Greek Literature

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Greek theatre grew out of celebrations honoring
Dionysius.

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Greek Religion
Drama
Poetry
deed to do
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Theatres were built into hillsides utilizingthe
natural acoustics of the landscape.

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An all-male casts performed before an all-male
audience on a stage devoid of scenery.
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Only three actors portrayed all of the major
characters, changing masks as they changed roles.
The remaining of the actors formed the chorus.

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Greek Religion
Drama
Poetry
Tragedy
Comedy
From tragoidia (goat-song).
From komoidia (to revel sing).
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Tragedies were the earliest Greek dramas,
focusing on a major character flaw that usually
resulted in disaster.

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Tragedies were inspired by the myths contained in
the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Aeschylus,the father of Greek Tragedy,
authored The Orestia and Agamemnon.

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His plays show the consequences of ones deeds
will carry down in generations.

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Orestia being pursued by the Furies.

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Aegisthos killing Agamemnon.

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Sophocles is credited with writing 123 plays, the
most-famous one being Œdipus Rex.

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His plays accepted human suffering as
unavoidable and stressed human courage and
compassion.

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Euripides is best-remembered for Medea and The
Trojan Women plays that focused on human
qualities that bring disaster on to themselves.

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Drama
Poetry
Tragedy
Comedy
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Aristophanes is the best-known comedy playwright.

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Plays such as The Birds and The Clouds, ridiculed
people, ideas, and social customs.

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Greek Religion
Drama
Poetry
Epic
Lyric
Tragedy
Comedy
From epikos (word speech poem).
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The best-known examples of epic poetry from
ancient Greece are The Iliad and The Odyssey,
composed by Homer.

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Lyric poetry expressesemotions and thoughts.

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The most-famous Greek poetess was Sapho

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Sappho and Phaon.

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