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  • Athens
    • Proud
      • Democracy
      • Drama
      • Artists, playwrights, philosophers.
    • The Gods
      • Zeus
        • Lightning bolt
        • Eagle
        • Holding a staff
      • Hera
        • Halo shaped crown
        • Pomegranate
      • Demeter
        • Anything agricultural
      • Poseidon
        • Trident
        • Sea creatures
      • Hephaistos
        • Lame, sitting down
        • Tools
      • Apollo
        • Looks young
        • Metrosexual
        • Musical instruments
        • Bow and arrow
      • Artemis
        • Animals
        • Hunting- bow and arow
      • Athene
        • Weapons- spear and shield
        • Wise- owl
        • Medusa's head
      • Hermes
        • Medical scepter
        • Winged shoes and helmet
      • Aphrodite
        • Seashells
        • Mirrors
      • Ares
        • Fully clad in armour
      • Dionysos
        • Grapes/vines
        • Satyrs
    • Temples
      • Inside:
        • The naos
        • Sanctuary walls
        • Alter
      • Sacrifices
        • Animal led into sanctuary. Willing = good omen
        • Cleaned, ribbons on head and horns painted gold
        • Participants washed themselves and put on garlands
        • Maiden carried basket with barley grain and a hidden knife
        • Flute player
        • Priest poured water on it's head. nod = consent
        • Said prayer.
        • Animal stunned- head hit with club
        • Priest cut animals throat, collected blood and poured on the alter
        • The meat cut up and treated
          • Thighbones cut off, wrapped in fat and burned on alter- smoke rose to heavens to nourish gods.
          • Entrails cut out and inspected for omens
          • Rest of meat boiled and shared by participants
    • Festivals
      • Panathenaia
        • Every July to celebrate Athena's birthday
          • Great Panathenaia every 4 years- 8 days long
        • Grand procession through city to the Acropolis
          • At the end gave Athene's statue a gold and purple peplos and the animal was sacrificed/ meat eaten
          • Began at dawn at the Dipylon gate
          • 100 sacrificial animals
          • Only Athenians were allowed onto the sanctuary
        • Music events
          • Prizes- eg money and golden crowns
          • Rhapsodes retold Iliad and Odyssey
          • Lyre and aulos
        • Sports events
          • Most olympic events
          • Eg. stadion (200m sprint), pentathlon, wrestling, boxing and equestrian events
        • Tribal events
          • Athenian only
          • 10 tribes
          • torch race from the Dipylon Gate to Acropolis and boat races at Piraeus
      • The City of Dionysia
        • Previous summer- the archon selected playwrights for festival
          • Chose 3 tragic playwrights who each wrote 3 tragedies and a satyr-play
          • 3 comic playwrights who wrote a comedy play
        • Held in late march for Dionysos
          • Dionysos = god of drama = grand drama festival
        • 1st day- grand procession
        • 2nd and 3rd days- plays performed
          • Morning- 3 tragedies and satyr from same playwrights
          • After lunch- comic play
        • Tribes put names of citizens into urn
          • 1 name chosen from each of 10 urns
            • 5th day- each judge voted for playwright and put in urn
              • Archon drew 5 names out- most votes = winner
    • Theatre
      • Plan
        • Orchestra- the chorus for play
        • Alter- for religious sacrifices
        • Parados- the entrance/  aisles
        • Proskene- the stage the 3 main actors were on
        • Skene- has double doors to hide or change behind. had scenery painted on (?)
        • Mekhane- pully system to represent gods
        • Ekkuklema- dead bodies wheeled in/out
        • Thunder- box full of rocks rattled
        • Semi-circle. helps acoustics
        • Seats 15,000
        • Seats staggered- everyone can see
      • Plays
        • Tragedies- sad, full of drama
        • Comedies- funny, lighthearted
          • Made fun of people (politicians)
          • Jokes
          • Costumes padded for effect
          • Phalloi- string for comedic effect
          • Rowdy croud
        • 3 actors and chorus
        • Masks- exaggerated expression and helps acoustics
        • Chorus
          • Tragedy- 15. Comedy- 24
          • Amateurs from Athens selected
          • Sang and danced in orchestra between scenes
          • Comment on play/ give audience background info
          • Create mood
          • Wore costumes

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