Ancient Greek Conventions & Medea

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time period?
220-550 BC
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define amphitheatre
open, circular with tiers of seats, built into hillside
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orchestra
usually circular, is where the chorus would dance and sing and interact with audience as well as actors on the stage near the skene
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Theatre of Dionysus
in Akropolis, god of wine, theatricality, sex = excess, represented in Greek theatre by characters doing things that are excessive
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Skene
rectangle building at the back of the orchestra, three doors, double doors in middle, if you enter in through them you'll die, exit and you're dead
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Thymele
alter, platform in the orchestra, used by the leader of the chorus during dialogues between leader and chorus
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Ekkyklema
cart that the dead go on
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Brontion
thunder machine
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deus ex machina
god by machine, how gods are revealed, coming onstage by a machine, gods come down to earth
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cast
all male, wore masks, 3 actors?
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chorus
sung and danced on stage, act as intermediary between audience and actors
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major themes (8)
feminism, murder/revenge, vows, marriage, adultery, citizenship, divine order, ritual and religion
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catharsis
emotional release on stage
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hamartia
fatal flaw
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peripeteia
sudden reversal in fortune
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agnorisis
moment of revelation
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when was Medea written and who wrote
431 BC by Euripides
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Medea's Genealogy?
she is goddaughter to the god of the sun, Helios
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who opens the play
two slaves - E is modern in his ideas
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structure of dialogue
mix of iambic pentameter (dialogue) and song (chorus)
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how did the greeks only have 3 actors
changed costume and mask, lots of silent characters
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the importance of the chorus
tragedy descended from a choral genre, which is integral to plot. Their departure marks the end of the play, act as an internal audience
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Medea as an anti hero?
E is trying to justify counter normative psychology pushed to its limits
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define amphitheatre

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open, circular with tiers of seats, built into hillside

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orchestra

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Theatre of Dionysus

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Skene

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