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Page 1: Greek Tragedy: Oedipusteachers.sduhsd.net/tchadwick/docs_10/greek_theatre.pdfGreek Tragedy: Oedipus Theatre Components Actors Chorus . Greek Theatre: Main components

Greek Tragedy: Oedipus

Theatre Components Actors Chorus

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Greek Theatre: Main components

Theatron: literally, the “watching place”

Orchestra: literally, the “dancing place”

Skene (skēnē): “scene,” or backdrop

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Theatron Daylight Class issues Women Comfort Sound effects

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Orchestra Challenges:

– Size – Distance from

audience – Holding

interest

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Skene Where the actors

changed costumes and masks

Behind orchestra Served as backdrop,

house Decorative in later

years Holds mechane

(mēkhanē)

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Other Theatre Components

Parados: passageways

Ekkykleme: “the thing that rolls”

Mechane: crane used for special effect

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Chorus 12-15 men Singing & Dancing

•Strophe: the first of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode.

•Antistrophe the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode.

•Parodos: (in ancient Greek drama) an ode sung by the chorus at their entrance, usually beginning the play.

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Oedipus in context

Dionysia Sophocles The Triology

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How did drama get Started?

They started as a religious Ceremony to honor the God Dionysis.

Why Dionysis? – Because as the god of wine and feast,

the drunken revelries that ensued in his worship allowed people to act as people other than themselves: hence, he became the god of acting as well.

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Sophocles 495 B.C.E. :Born in

Colonus, in Attica 441: Writes Antigone 431-404:

Peloponnesian War (Athens v. Sparta)

429: Writes Oedipus Rex

406: Sophocles dies

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The Three Plays of the Oedipus Cycle

Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Antigone is the third play in the trilogy, but

Sophocles wrote it before he wrote the other two plays.

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Oedipus Rex Delphic Oracle,

prophecy Corinth Sphinx riddle Self-punishment Children: Eteocles,

Polyneices, Ismene, Antigone

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Corinth: Agora

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Corinth

Sanctuary to Artemis

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Corinth 17th Century

Skeleton from burial ground

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Oracle at Delphi Apollo Parnassus Temple Pythia Oracle “trust in

Athens’ wooden walls…”

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Delphi: Temple to Apollo

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Delphi: View of valley

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Image and Textual References

Ancient Greek Theater. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site: http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/graphics/theaterdiagram.jpg

Damen, (2006). Classical Drama and Theatre. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site: www.usu.edu/.../11/vaseactorholdingmask.jpg

Greek Drama. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site: www.baylor.edu/~John_Thorburn/Attica2.GIF Hellenic World Staff (2007). The Greek Sphinx. Retrieved July 20, 2007, from The Hellenic World Web site:

www.ancientworlds.net/.../08/55/00085574_320.jpg Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tcf/pictures/electra.png&imgrefurl=http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tcf/pastevents.html

Startz, A. (2006). Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site: http://casweb.ou.edu/home/news/events/images/sophocles.jpg

The Classical Greek Chorus. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site: www2.selu.edu/.../classes/engl230/Chorus.jpg