THFM 3470- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)
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Roy flickinger the greek theatre and it"s drama (1960: greek theatre = an embellishment of worship, theatres has to be built to accommodate growing numbers of worshippers. Other scholars like michael walton argue that dramatic presentations took place in the agora for 30 years before moving to site on hill se of the acropolis. Drama with aeschylus adding a 2nd actor and providing conflict : progress demanded a 3rd actor. When: held annually in the spring. Tragedy was introduced in 534 bce, satyr plays added in. 501 bce, and comedies were added by 486 bce. Each playwright presents 3 tragedies and 1 satyr play (a tetralogy) Who: archon (city or state official that would select the plays being presented), choregoi (producers), citizens, noncitizens. Tickets: from your deme; don"t forget to sit with your tribe unless you"re a woman, slave, or a foreign alien, in which case you have to sit in your own section.
