Greek Theatre Powerpoint

Slide 1: Greek TraGedy: anTiGone  Theatre Components  Actors  Chorus

Slide 2: Greek TheaTre: Main coMponenTs Theatron: literally, the  “watching place” Orchestra: literally, the  “dancing place” Skene: “scene,” or  backdrop

Slide 3: TheaTron  Daylight  Classissues  Women  Comfort  Sound effects

Slide 4: orchesTra  Challenges:  Size  Distance from audience  Holding interest

Slide 5: skene  Behind orchestra  Served as backdrop, house  Decorative in later years  Holds mechane

Slide 6: oTher TheaTre coMponenTs Parados:  passageways  Ekkykleme: “the thing that rolls”  Mechane: crane used for special effect

Slide 7: acTors 3 Actors, all men  Various roles  Wore masks  Elaborate gestures, “over- acting”

Slide 8: chorus  12-15 men  Singing  Dancing  Strophe  Antistrophe

Slide 9: anTiGone: in conTexT Dionysia Sophocles Oedipus Rex  Castof characters

Slide 10: sophocles 495 B.C.E. :Born in  Colonus, in Attica 441: Writes Antigone  431-404:  Peloponnesian War (Athens v. Sparta) 429: Writes Oedipus  Rex 406: Sophocles dies 

Slide 11: oedipus rex Delphic Oracle,  prophecy Corinth  Sphinx riddle  Self-punishment  Children: Eteocles,  Polyneices, Ismene, Antigone

Slide 12: corinTh: aGora

Slide 13: corinTh Sanctuary to Artemis

Slide 14: corinTh  17thCentury Skeleton from burial ground

Slide 15: oracle aT delphi Apollo  Parnassus  Temple  Pythia  Oracle “trust in Athens’  wooden walls…”

Slide 16: delphi: TeMple To apollo

Slide 17: delphi: View of Valley

Slide 18: Image and Textual References Ancient Greek Theater. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site:  http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/graphics/theaterdiagram.jpg Damen, (2006). Classical Drama and Theatre. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site:  www.usu.edu/.../11/vaseactorholdingmask.jpg Greek Drama. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site: www.baylor.edu/~John_Thorburn/Attica2.GIF  Hellenic World Staff (2007). The Greek Sphinx. Retrieved July 20, 2007, from The Hellenic World Web site:  www.ancientworlds.net/.../08/55/00085574_320.jpg Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site:  http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tcf/pictures/electra.png&imgrefurl=http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tcf/pastevents.html Startz, A. (2006). Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site:  http://casweb.ou.edu/home/news/events/images/sophocles.jpg The Classical Greek Chorus. Retrieved July 20, 2007, Web site: www2.selu.edu/.../classes/engl230/Chorus.jpg 