View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-battle-of-the-greek-tragedies-melanie-sirof The world of modern theater owes its roots to the tragedians of Ancient Greece. As far back as the...
========== Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.Let us welcome you to the final day of
dramatic battle between great tragedians.It is a spring day here in Ancient Greece.Nearly 17,000 patrons are filing
into the Theatre of Dionysusto watch top playwrights,including favorites Aeschylus
and Sophocles duke it outto see whose hero
may be deemed most tragic,whose story most awful.Well Seacrestopolis,in last week's battle of the choruses,all 50 members of each playwright's chorus
traveled back and forth across the stage,singing the strophe and antistrophe,
telling misbegotten tales of woe.Today's first chorus is entering
through the parados,taking their positions in the orchestra
at the bottom of the stage.Mario Lopedokia, this is nothing
we haven't se...
