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Background Information The Career of Æschylus The House of Atreus Greek Tragedy Background Information The Career of Æschylus The House of Atreus

Development of Greek Tragedy Dithyramb and Satyrika Strophic choral poetry Associated c. Dionysiac worship Originated in Corinth ca. 600 B.C. Thespis Probably NOT the creator of tragedy Perhaps introduced the prologue and speech Æschylus: introduced the 2nd actor Sophocles introduced the 3rd actor

Greek Tragedy in the 5th Century Location Theater of Dionysus in Athens Syracuse Setting Festivals in Attica City Dionysia Rural Dionysia Lenæa Competition

Athenian Acropolis and Environs

Theater of Dionysus

Theatre at Syracuse

Theatre Plan 1. Orchestra 2. Eisodoi 3. Skene 4. Skene building 5. Cavea

The Tragic Machinery Chorus Actors (also masked) Skene Mechane 12-15 Members Masked Dancing Strophic Songs (c. antistrophes) Characters Stasimon vs. Parodos Actors (also masked) Skene Mechane Ekkyklema

Skene, Mechane, and Ekkyklema

Masks

The Greater Dionysia 3 Tragedians 12 Plays Satyr Plays Choregia/Choregos (liturgies) Comedy Ritual

Æschylus’ Career Ca. 525: Born in Eleusis 499: First Tragic Production 490: Marathon 484: First Victory 480: Salamis 472: Persians (Pericles is choregos) 467: Seven against Thebes ???: Suppliants 458: Oresteia ca. 457: Goes to Sicily 456?: Prometheus Bound 456/5: Dies

The House of Atreus 1st Generation 2nd Generation Names Events Names Pelops Hippodameia Oinomaos Myrtilos Events The Race 2nd Generation Names Atreus Aërope Thyestes Events The Seduction The Ram The Feast

The House of Atreus 3rd Generation Agamemnon Menelaos Clytemnestra Orestes Electra Iphigeneia Ægisthos Events Important to Agamemnon The Feast of Thyestes The Blood Curse The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia at Aulis The Trojan War