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A survey of ancient Greek drama and the society that produced it. The course will examine a representative sample of the major plays of the tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as well as the comic playwright Aristophanes.
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www.temple.edu/classics/dramadir.html
www.temple.edu/classics/dramadir.html
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This page is designed to provide a brief introduction to Ancient Greek Theater, and to provide tools for further research. Click on any of the following topics to explore them further. 1. Timeline of Greek Drama;
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academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Theater.html
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By the time of Sophocles' death in 406 BC, 128 years after Thespis' victory in the first Athenian drama competition, the golden era of Greek drama was waning. Athens, whose freethinking culture had spawned the birth of theatre, would be overrun in 404 BC by the Spartans.
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anarchon.tripod.com/indexGREEKTH.html
anarchon.tripod.com/indexGREEKTH.html
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Aristotle, Classic Technique, and Greek Dram ... The third unity, that of action, is bound up with the nature not only of Greek but of all drama. ... GREEK DRAMA MORE CONCERNED WITH PLOT THAN WITH CHARACTER...
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www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/spectop007.html
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Theatre of ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The theatre of ancient Greece , or ancient Greek drama , is a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece between c. 550 and c. 220 BCE. The city-state of Athens, which became a significa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Greece
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Greek drama, far from being entertainment, had a more seious moral purpose. Growing out of choral chants in honor of Dionysos, god of wine and fertility, the drama evolved. First Thespis invented the actor: one of the chorus pretended to be someone else, making dialogue with the chorus possible.
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www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/greekdrama/greekdramahome...
www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/greekdrama/greekdramahome.html
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It is important to understand that drama began in the Greek world as a form of religious ritual; and although drama in classical Athens became a great day out and ripping good entertainment, especially if there was alot of blood and gore, its religious character was never really lost on the audience.
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wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/DRAMA.HTM
wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/DRAMA.HTM
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Greek statuette. Two strolling actors with comedy masks in the Louvre, Paris ... The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human.
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www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/24c.html
www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/24c.html
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