greek theater the land greece has a rich culture and history
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Greek TheaterGreek Theater
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The LandThe Land
•Greece has a rich culture and history
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The LandThe Land
•Democracy was founded
in Greece
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The LandThe Land
•Patriarchal (male dominated)
society
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The LandThe Land
•Philosophy, as a practice, began in Greece (Socrates,
Plato, Aristotle)
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The LandThe LandLocated in Europe in the Aegean
Sea
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The LandThe Land
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The LandThe Land
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Overview of Greek TheaterOverview of Greek Theater• The land
• Antigone
• The Theater
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The TheaterThe Theater
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The TheaterThe TheaterMain Portions of Greek Theater:
Theatron – Seating
for audience
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The TheaterThe TheaterMain Portions of Greek Theater:
Orchestra – “Dancing
Place” where
chorus sang to the
audience
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The TheaterThe TheaterMain Portions of Greek Theater:
Skene – wooden scene
building used as a dressing room.
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The TheaterThe Theater Main Portions of Greek Theater:
Parados – entrance
to the theater used by
the Chorus
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DionysusDionysus
•God of Wine and
fertility
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The TheaterThe Theater
• Greek plays were performed during religious ceremonies held in honor of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and
fertility
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The TheaterThe Theater
• Business would shut down for days, people would travel from all around to see the
drama competitions—even prisoners were temporarily released to see the plays
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The TheaterThe Theater
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Major Greek DramatistsMajor Greek Dramatists
Dramatist Born Wrote
Aeschylus 524 B.C. Seven Against Thebes
Sophocles 496 B.C. Antigone
Oedipus
Euripides 480 B.C. Medea
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How were the dramas developed?How were the dramas developed?
• Thespis was the first playwright to tell a story. He had one chorus member step away from the others to play the part of a hero or god.
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How were the dramas developed?How were the dramas developed?
Aeschylus added a second individual
actor to the performance, thus
creating the possibility of
conflict.
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How were the dramas developed?How were the dramas developed?
•Sophocles adds a third actor; now
we have full-blown drama.
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Overview of Greek TheatreOverview of Greek Theatre• The land
• Antigone
• The stage
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The Chorus: A Group of Elderly The Chorus: A Group of Elderly MenMen
• The chorus was very dominant
• Represented society
• often served as the “ideal spectator” by providing advice, opinions, questions to the audience and actors.
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The Chorus: A Group of Elderly The Chorus: A Group of Elderly MenMen
• singing and chanting
• summing up the action after every scene
• saying out loud what the audience should be thinking
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Key Points Key Points
• Athenian playwrights often used the traditional stories to make points about their own era, and they often used mythological conflicts to portray contemporary ones to an audience.
• In Antigone, Sophocles focuses on the possible conflicts between one’s religion and one’s politics.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Is based on the myth of Oedipus
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
• Oedipus is given away by his parents, Laios and Jocasta
when they learn from an oracle that their son would kill his father and marry his
mother.
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• The ancient citizens of Greece would sacrifice and
pray to an ORACLE.
• An oracle was a priest or priestess who would send a message from the gods
to mortals who brought their requests.
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The Oracle at DelphiThe Oracle at Delphi
Most famous oracle in Greek mythology.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
• Oedipus learns of the oracle and believing the king and queen of Corinth are his
parents, he leaves to avoid the oracle.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone• Oedipus travels to Thebes, killing Laios on the way. He saves the city
from a terrible monster, the
Sphinx.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Thebes reward him by making him king and giving him the
queen to marry.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
• A plague hits the city and the oracle warns that it won’t go away until the killer of King Laios is
punished.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Oedipus investigates and finds out he killed
his father and married his mother.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Oedipus blinds
himself and Jocasta kills
herself.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Set in Thebes (a city in ancient
Greece)
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Antigone is the daughter of
Oedipus and Jocasta.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Antigone’s brothers, Eteokles and
Polyneices, were to rule in alternate years.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Eteokles refused to give up the throne
for Polyneices at the end of his year.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Polyneices went to Argos and raised an army to gain
the throne.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Eteokles and Polyneices killed
each other in battle.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Antigone’s uncle, Creon, became king of Thebes.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
• Antigone’s uncle, Creon, gives Eteokles, his ally, a hero’s burial and issues a decree against burying
Polyneices.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•Antigone believes that he is wrong and that both of her brothers
should be buried with honor.
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Sophocles’ Sophocles’ AntigoneAntigone
•The conflict between Antigone and Creon is the basis for the
play, Antigone .
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The EndThe End