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Theater of Dionysus

Question Description

please read:http://www.didaskalia.net/studyarea/recreatingdionysus.html

1.

After viewing the recreations of the Theater of Dionysus, do you think that drama was important to the Greeks? Why do you feel this way?

2.

Since often times there were spectators sitting quite a distance from the actors, how do you think the movement was choreographed so that even the farthest person in the audience could understand what was happening?
3. First, let’s look at  Antigone.

Now we will start our reading of Antigone.

Read up to the point where Creon confronts Antigone after she has buried her brother.

What happened to Antigone’s and Ismene’s brothers?

links:http://quatr.us/greeks/literature/antigone.htm

http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html