Greek Drama Review
Terms
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- Hamartia
- tragic flaw
- Oracle
- Place wherer gods are consulted to find the truth or learn of the future
- Hubris
- Pride
- Sophocles
- Greatest of Greek Tragedians
- Proskenion
- served as backdrop
- dithyramb
- hymn sung to honer the god Dionysus
- nomos
- human laws
- Messenger
- tells what is happening away from the scene
- nemesis
- fate that can't be escaped
- physis
- forces of nature/unrestricted passion
- Stichomythic
- back and forth argument
- catharsis
- purging of emotions like pity and fear
- Anagnorisis
- recognition or discovery by the hero
- Thymele
- alter to Dionysus
- Aeschylus
- Father of Tragedy
- Thespis
- Father of Drama
- Skene
- dressing room
- Orchestra
- dancing place where actors performed
- Choragos
- Chorus Leader
- Peripeteia
- reversal of fortune
- polis
- the "good" city of man-ruled by laws
- Unities of Greek Drama
- Time, Place, Action
- Parados
- Actors entrance
- Theatron
- seating