June 3, 2015 (Week 15)
theater / theatre
＊Conflict(s)
The dithyramb was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god: Plato, in The Laws, while discussing various kinds of music mentions "the birth of Dionysos, called, I think, the dithyramb."
→Attic relief (4th century BCE) depicting an aulos player and his family standing before Dionysos and a female consort, with theatrical masks displayed above.
Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology.
→God of the Grape Harvest, Winemaking, Wine, Ritual Madness, Religious Ecstasy, and Theatre.
*Bacchus is the Roman name for Dionysus, the god of wine and intoxication.
The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics. In their neoclassical form they are as follows:
*unity of action: a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
*unity of time: the action in a play should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.
*unity of place: a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.