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Orchestra
Where the chorus performs between the main stage and the audience.
Limitations of old theater
- Continuous presence of chorus
- No intermissions
- No lighting
- No curtains
Hamartia
A tragic error
The Dionysia
Annual festival
Flat characters
Have limited traits
Proscenion
The main stage
Catharsis
A feeling of emotional purging on the part of the audience during a tragedy
Anagnorisis
The hero realizes the web of fate they are entangled in
Myth
A traditional story concerning the history of a people or explaining natural or social phenomena
Static characters
Don't change throughout the story
Skene
Building through which actors entered and exited, changed costumes
Catastrophe
Change of fortune from good to bad, which leads to emotional scenes of suffering
Thespis
First actor
Purpose of drama
To entertain and inform
Dynamic characters
Change throughout the story
Parados
Passages through which the chorus enters and exits
Hubris
Overwhelming pride
Aeschylus
Added the second actor
Stage directions
Create mood and provide details
Fences theme
The sins of the father
Theatron
Tiered seating built into a hillside in the shape of a horseshoe
Peripeteia
Plot reversal
Sophocles
Wrote Oedipus and added the third actor
Have multiple traits
Oedipus theme
Fate and free will forms a contradictory balence