Sophocles Vocab
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- blasphemy (n)
- sacrilege
- proclamation (n)
- official announcement
- lithe (adj)
- thin
- sententiously
- given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous
- auspicious (adj)
- favorable
- bray (n)
- sound of a donkey
- sated (adj)
- fully satsfied
- carrion (n)
- decaying flesh of dead animals
- execrable (adj)
- extremely bad/unpleasant
- malediction (n)
- curse
- parry (v)
- answer evaisively
- duplicity (n)
- deceitfulness
- opportune (adj)
- favorable/appropriate
- contagion (n)
- spread of harmful ideas or practice
- pallid (adj)
- pale
- defilement (n)
- sickness/disease
- augury (n)
- omen/divination
- lamentation (n)
- sadness/grief
- supplication (n)
- prayers/beseechments
- aphorism (n)
- an observation containing the truth, maxim
- calamity (n)
- a disaster
- implacable (adj)
- unstoppable, merciless
- transgress (v)
- act in disregard of laws and rules
- brazen (adj)
- bold, made of brass
- dithyrambs
- worship
- dramaturgy
- the art of writing and producing plays
- hubris
- excessive pride
- thespian
- of or relating to drama
- drama
- comes from greek word for "action", national religious ritual, entertainment of epic recital
- tragedy
- ancient tragedy presents men as somewhat better than average
- ode
- when the chorus comes out and chants
- anagnorisis
- when a character experiences clarity
- catharsis
- purging of emotions
- tragic hero
- a man better than ourselves but not perfect, has an hamartia, faces destiny w/ courage and nobility of spirit, stresses vulnerability of humans, not totally pessimistic
- strophe/antistrophe
- movement of chorus
- genre
- a kind of literary or artistic work
- hamartia
- tragic flaw
- prologue
- introduces subject matter, introductory speech that draws attention to theme and gives background to story
- parados
- entrance of chorus, chanting lyirc directly relating to theme of play
- theatron
- where people sat, shaped like horseshoe
- orchestra
- stage, chorus placed here
- paradoi
- runways, exit/entry ways
- skene
- where setting was, sometimes use as stage
- proscenium
- level of skene where most action took place