GREEK THEATER LINKS
 
 
The five category of links below take you to readings and resources that will assist you in: a) answering questions from the Short Answer Exercises in Unit 1 and, 2) participating in the Lecture and Discussion Classroom.
 
 ANCIENT GREECE 
 
Ancient Greece: Burials 
Ancient Greece: Cemeteries
Ancient Greeks: Views of Death 
Daily Life in Ancient Greece
Dionysus
Dionysus and Drama
Education in Ancient Greece 
Exposure of Greek Babies
Greek Oracles 
Greek Social Classes
 
 
Greek View of Death 
Kingship in the Ancient World
Men's Life in Ancient Greece 
Men's & Hunting
Myth of Dionysus
Sacrifices in Ancient Greece 
Sacrifices to the Gods
Schooling in Ancient Greece
Slavery in Ancient Greece
Specific Sacrifices
Warfare in Ancient Greece
 Women's Life
 
GREEK STAGECRAFT
 
Greek Theater (origin and staging) 
Conventions of Greek Tragedy 
Guide to Ancient Greek Theater 
Structure of Greek Theater 
Ancient Stagecraft 
Organization of the Tragic Play Contests 
City Dionysia Festival 
Presentations of Greek Plays 
Greek Masks 
Costumes 
Greek Costumes and Dress
GREEK PLAYWRIGHTS 

Greek Playwrights 
Sophocles 
Aeschylus 
Aeschylus: Father of Tragedy 
Aeschylus: Greek Playwright 
Euripides 
Euripides: Greek Playwright 

TEXTS
 
Greek Tragedy Lecture (story origins) 
? Aristotle's Poetics 
Summary of Oedipus Rex 
Summary of Oedipus at Colonus 
Summary of Antigone
 
 
 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 

Pictures of Delphi 

Picture of the Sphinx 
Picture of Oedipus and the Sphinx 
Image of Oedipus and the Sphinx 
Images of Women and Goddesses