ATHENIAN COMEDY

THE LIFE OF THE THEATRE

Western theatre was born in Athens, GreeceAttic TheatreFundingThe PerformanceThe ActorsThe Birth of DramaThe Art Flourished

GREEK COSTUMES

TYPICAL STRUCTURE OF GREEK PLAYS

TYPICAL STRUCTURE OF A TRAGEDY

PrologueParodeStropheAntistrophe

EpodeEpisodeStasimonExode

THE CHORUS

COMEDIES

Parode (Entrance Ode)ParabasisOdeEpirrhemaAntodeAntepirrhemaEpisodeExode

AESCHYLUS

SOPHOCLES

EURIPIDES

ARISTOPHANES

GREEK THEATRE

GREEK THEATRE

THE END

“WORKS CITED”

• Feder, L., Crowell's Handbook of Classical Literature (Crowell 1964), s.vv. comedy; tragedy.

• Hornblower, S., & Spawforth, A. (eds.), Oxford Classical Dict. (3rd ed., Oxford 1996), s.vv.

• Howatson, M. C. (ed.), Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (2nd ed., Oxford 1989), s.vv. comedy; metre; strophê; tragedy; triad.

• Preminger, A., & Brogan, T. V. F. (eds.), New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton 1993), s.vv. antistrophe; epode; parabasis; stasimon; strophe.

• Taplin, O., Greek Tragedy in Action (California 1978), pp. 12-13, 19-20, 184n11.