CLAS 2220H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thyrsus, Thyestes, Pentheus

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 2220H
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Dithyramb: a kind of choral ode performed in a religious festival to celebrate dionysus. Aeschylus: wrote the persians which deals with historical events like the invasion of. Thespis: introduced the actors on stage; important in development of tragedy. Greece; first tragedian; introduced 2 actors on stage. Sophocles: introduced 3 actors, which has since become the norm. Prologue: introduces characters; gives background of the play. Parodos: entry of the chorus onto the stage; picks up on what has been discussed in. Choral ode: aka stasimon; chanted or sung by the chorus in meters. Greater dionysia: religious festival to the god dionysus; took place in march. Dionysus(bacchus): foreign god from middle-east; son of semele and zeus. Bacchae: aka maenads; women followers of dionysus; wear fawn skins and have. Cadmus: father of semele and of agave; grandfather of pentheus. Deus ex machina: appearance of a divinity at the end of a play to pull all the strings.