The History of Greek Theater :: Art

The narration of Hellenic TheaterTheater and drama in Ancient Greece took run in about 5th century BCE, with the Sopocles, the gigantic writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the analogous genre, heroes and the ideals of life were depicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for honor and fame, his satisfy was courageous and glorious and his life would climax in a great and noble death. Originally, the heros recognition was created by selfish behaviors and tiny thought of service to others. As the Greeks grew toward city-states and colonization, it became the destiny and ambition of the hero to get through honor by serving his city. The second major characteristic of the other(a) Greek world was the supernatural. The two worlds were not separate, as the gods lived in the same world as the men, and they interfered in the mens lives as they chose to. It was the gods who direct suffering and evil to men. In the plays of Sophocles, the gods brought about the heros nightfall because of a tragic flaw in the character of the hero. In Greek tragedy, suffering brought knowledge of worldly matters and of the individual. Aristotle attempted to explain how an earreach could give away tragic events and still have a pleasurable experience. Aristotle, by meddling the works of writers of Greek tragedy, Aeschulus, Euripides and Sophocles (whose Oedipus Rex he considered the finest of all Greek tragedies), arrived at his explanation of tragedy. This explanation has a profound influence for more than twenty centuries on those writing tragedies, most significantly Shakespeare. Aristotles analysis of tragedy began with a description of the effect such a work had on the audience as a catharsis or purging of the emotions. He distinguishable that catharsis was the purging of two specific emotions, pity and fear. The hero has make a mistake due to ignorance, not because of wickedness or corruption. Aristotle utilise the word hamartia, which is th e tragic flaw or offense committed in ignorance. For example, Oedipus is ignorant of his true parentage when he commits his fatal deed. Oedipus Rex is matchless of the stories in a three-part myth called the Thebian cycle. The structure of most all Greek tragedies is similar to Oedipus Rex. Such plays are divided in to five parts, the prologue or introduction, the prados or entrance of the chorus, four episode or acts separates from one another(prenominal) by stasimons or choral odes, and exodos, the action after the last stasimon.