ClSt / ComL 200

Lecture notes for Monday, February 22, 1999


Dionysian Drama

Athenian Drama in the Fifth Century

Myths and Festivals of Dionysus:

Representations of Dionysus and his followers
Dionysus and a maenad
Dionysus and Ariadne (Titian; Crash Test Dummies)
Satyr plays
Euripides' Cyclops
Comedy
Aristophanes' Frogs
Metatheater in the Bacchae
Important concepts in criticism of tragedy:
Catharsis (cleansing)
Peripeteia (reversal)
Anagnorisis (discovery)
Hamartia (mistake)


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