Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tyrant, Theogony, Reed Pipe

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

This may have risen from ritual worships to the god dionysus who is the god of wine and has two sides to him. The songs and dance told stories to honour the god and then they ended up enacting the stories. Greek drama was revolutionary and new in the classical period. No one knows how dramas developed but many theories were created. The main theory is that we get greek tragedy or comedy from the most popular rituals to. Dionysus is the god who preserves the theatre, dissolves the bounds of identity. Dionysus allows people to step on stage and dissolve away. Because he is the god of wine, drunkenness and ecstasy it makes it easier to dissolve their identity. He is receiving a gift of a rabbit from these women dancing and offering sacrifice. Annual athenian festival for the god dionysus.