- ritualistic or religious
- Dionysus; god of wine, fertility, and revelry
- eventually transitioned into a more secular era
- origin of theatre was recommended by Aristotle
- "Human beings are instinctively imitative"
- first of the greatest theatre in the western world was from Greece
- Dionysus; dithrambs
- Aristotle belives that from these festivals was where theatre had first emerged
- 534B.C.
- the city of Dionysia started a contest of theatre around the region
- Key Greek Playwrights
- Aeschylus
- Plays of Mythology
- Oresteia
- Sophocles
- Antigony
- Euripides
- Wrote 92 but only 23 survived
- Medeles??
- Trojan Women
- Cyclops
- Reduced the role of the chorus
- skeptic of Greek ideals
- skeptical of the gods
- Aristophanes
- Mendeles
- Only 45 plays survived: 32 tragedies, 12 comedies, and 1 satyr play
Elements of Greek Theatre
- Everyone dies offstage
tbc
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