Aeschylus - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

My revision notes contain over 100 pages of all of the information required to achieve an A* in the Greek Theatre component of your OCR A-level Classical Civilisation exam. The optional play choices are 'Bacchae,' 'Oedipus the King,' and 'Frogs.' My notes include a link to accompanying flashcards, as well as notes based on the textbook, memorable quotes from each of the plays, modern scholarship for each play, and even essay plans to help you achieve everything you need to know! Yo...

18 pages summary, has the history from Solon/Cleisthenes/Ephialtes/Pericles etc and also has the set sources for OCR: Aristophanes, Plato, Pseudo-Xenophon, Aeschylus, Euripides and Thucydides (analysis, quotes and summaries)

TJC English 2332 Final Exam Review Question and answers 100% correct 2024 TJC English 2332 Final Exam Review What are the two poles of the human condition? - correct answer War & Peace - they are on Achilles' shield Who are the three Greek playwrights? - correct answer Sophocles / Euripides / Aeschylus Archon; - correct answer mayor Catharsis; - correct answer some sort of emotional release Choragus; - correct answer priest of Dionysus Choregos; - correct answer "patron" u...

What is theatre influenced by? - Answer-paintings on cave walls- animals hunted and rituals beginnings foundations for western thea - Answer-started with greeks, second romans Greatest influences of western thea - Answer-greeks, Elizabeth renaissance, 20th C thinkers of thea - Answer-Homer Thespics aeschylus sophocles euripides Thespics - Answer-first to use 1 actor aeschylus - Answer-gave us 2nd actor sophocles - Answer-gave us 3rd actor euripides - Answer-from the goat- g-ds, cathar...

THEA 201 Final Shifflett Latest Update with Verified Solutions Aeschylus -introduced the second actor -reduced the chorus to 12 people -known for stately poetic language Agitprop -type of theatre having to do with agitation and propaganda -presents an issue or problem that is important to a certain community -inspired living news papers in America (plays that acted out a certain news section) Alan Locke "The New Negro" urban not rural self-assured and articulate Anna Deave...

TJC English 2332 Study Guide Exam 2024. What are the two poles of the human condition? - correct answer War & Peace - they are on Achilles' shield Who are the three Greek playwrights? - correct answer Sophocles / Euripides / Aeschylus Archon; - correct answer mayor Catharsis; - correct answer some sort of emotional release Choragus; - correct answer priest of Dionysus Choregos; - correct answer "patron" usually a wealthy Athenian What was the conflict in the play Oedipus?...

Western audiences, to a great degree have been brought up watching Aristotelian story telling Correct Answer: True The inciting incident in a story happens after the crisis Correct Answer: false there were 24 chorus members in the tragedy of sophocles Correct Answer: false according to the aristotle good tragedies raise questions about the meaning of human kind's existence Correct Answer: true the new comedy of menander was severely critical of the athenian government's role in t...

Who are the two people Dante mentions going through Hell before him? Aeneas and Paul What is the name of the woman who sent Virgil on his mission to be Dante's guide? Beatrice Who were the three blessed women who rescue Dante in canto II? Mary, Lucia, Beatrice The phrase over the gate of Hell warned people to "Abandon all ________" Hope In the vestibule of Hell the sinners run naked being chased by what? Wasps and hornets Who are the sinners in the vest...

UIL LITERARY CRITICISM EXAM SET 2024/2025 George Orwell - CORRECT ANSWER-1984 Arthur C. Clarke - CORRECT ANSWER-2001: A Space Odyssey John Updike - CORRECT ANSWER-A&P William Faulkner - CORRECT ANSWER-Absalom, Absalom! Irene Hunt - CORRECT ANSWER-Across Five Aprils George Eliot - CORRECT ANSWER-Adam Bede Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Virgil - CORRECT ANSWER-The Aeneid Aeschylus - CORRECT ANSWER-...

Aristophanes' Frogs Summary, Quotes, and Modern/Secondary Scholarship