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- Primitive rituals grew out of a desire to
- appease a deity.
- A primitive form of logical non sequitur resulted in what critics call
- contiguous association.
- the designation of speciallists to perform the ritual resulted in
- performers and audience.
- What were the purposes of primitive ritual?
- entertainment and pleasure, glorification of the deity of the tribal past, education, and influencing events.
- The abydos passion play concerns the myth of
- Osiris.
- Greek drama grew out of rituals performed in honor of
- Rameses.
- The father of drama, the one woh added the first actor to the ritual song and dance, was
- Thespis.
- The playwright who added a second actor was
- Aeschylus.
- The playwright who added a third actor was
- Sophocles.
- Sophocles reduced the chorus to
- fifteen.
- In a typical Greek theater, the audience sat in the
- theatron.
- The dressing rooms were in the
- skene.
- After each episode came a
- stanza.
- The first entrance of hte chorus occured in the
- parados.
- The principle that characerizes proper dramatic propriety is
- decorum.
- Agamemnon takes place in the city of
- Argos.
- Agamemnon has been away for
- ten years.
- When Agamemnon dies, he
- cries out.
- Cassandra's prophetic raving includes:
- what has happened in the House of Atreus, what will happen to her, what Orestes will do.
- Not appearing in the first place is
- Orestes.
- In the second play, recognition includes
- a lock of hair and foodprints.
- The chorus of the second play is
- actively engaged, even to the point of advising Cilissa.
- The second pay's title refers to the practice of pouring offerings of
- wine.
- The three parts of the Orestia are
- the Agamemnon, The Liberation Bearers, The Eumenides
- Symbolically, the poured offering of wine refers to:
- the lookd shed in three generations
- the concrete embodiment of the net-like trap is the bathrobe of
- Atreus
- The third play's title is a complimentary name for
- the Furies.
- Apollo's first arguement claimes that his oracles delivered by Pythia have as their ultimate source
- Zeus.
- The topical theme of the trilogy addresses the conflict between all of the following:
- sky gods and earth gods, old ways and new ways, Chthonian deities and Olympian deities.
- The chthonian principle is all of the following:
- feminine, vengefull, inconsistent, and insatisfactory.