MOL 212 midterm

4 plays; 3 tragedies and 1 comedy

3 plays somewhat related

• august festival/celebration at the end of summer
• carried a statue of athena in a parade like manner with every warrior, soldier, priest, athlete etc
• larger and more political celebration

• stail placed upon people wh commit acts of hubris
• nobody looks or speaks to that person for fear of becoming tainted themselves

ancient greek spelling of stain

breaking bearrier between gods and men

literal translation; recognizing your place (social standing)

Apollo's oracle; ask the gods a question; future telling; priestess "pythia" guards oracle; Apollow beats the big snake Pytho -where the name for the priestess comes from; responses usually in hexamete verse;

• in Oedipus the King (by Sophocles), Oedipus goes to the oracle and asks who is my mother and father (parents)?
• response: you will kill your father and marry your mother.

• the prepubesent boys who dance; starts with strophe (turn) to antistrophe (turn back) and ends with epode (stand still)
• performed at the parode (second part of the play after the prologue)
• "song ode along the side"

• first then parode then episode
• sets up the story
• audience is usually familiar with the story

• 3 to 5 sets
• the stasimon (reaction of the chorus to actions/words of actors)
• interaction between character and chorus

• (eisodos)
• route along the side

• "goat song"
• song for which the prize is a goat

song sung by chorus upon exit

to miss the mark; intellectual mistake

• plot reversal; related to tragic dialectic + anagnorisis
• in antigone - this would be when Creon changes his mind on burying the body

moment of claity for the audience