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Title: The Greek theater and its drama
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Flickinger, Roy C. (Roy Caston), 1876-1942
Subjects: Greek drama -- History and criticism Theater -- Greece
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, begging for their help.- Again, the incidents of many plays come into harmony with / theatrical conditions only if we suppose that there was no stage. Perhaps the best and clearest illustration of this is affordedby Aristophanes Frogs (405 B.C.). Xanthias and Dionysus,engaged in conversation, enter the orchestra at one of the sideentrances (Fig. 44A). At vs. 35 the latter calls attention tothe nearest of the three doors in the proscenium, saying: I am Cf. Hermes, XXI (1886), 603. ^ Cf. The Greek Stage According to the Extant Dramas, Transactions of theAmerican Philological Association, XXII (1891), sff. Similar results were obtainedby White, The Stage in Aristophanes, Harvard Studies, II (1891), 159 ff. INTRODUCTION 89 already near this door where I must turn in. It transpiresthat this is the house of Heracles (Fig. 44B), and Dionysusknock brings his brother in person to the door. From him theyreceive directions for their trip to the lower world—that first SEAT OFPRIEST OFDIONYSUS
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PALACEOF PLUTOIN MADESy ABODE OFHERACLESAT ATHENS * ♦ + * COURSE OF DIONYSUSo o o e COURSE OF XANTHIAS▲ AAA course: of CHARON Fig. 44.—Movements of the Actors in Aristophanes Frogs, vss. 1-460 they will come to a large lake which they must cross in a tinyboat, then they will see perjurers, thieves, and criminals of thedeepest dye, and finally will be received by happy bands ofinitiates (the chorus), who dwell alongside the very road at thedoors of Pluto (vss. 162 f.). Scarcely have they left Heracles f 90 THE GREEK THEATER AND ITS DRAMA door when they behold a trundle-boat pushed from the oppositeparodus into the orchestra (CC^^ and hear Charons *Yo-heigh,Yo-ho (vs. 180). He approaches the edge of the orchestrawhere they now stand, but when they prepare to embark Charonrefuses to receive a slave on board and poor Xanthias is orderedto run around the lake (CCD; vs. 193). Meanwhile Dionysusand Charon direct their boat across the orchestra (CD) towhere, in the center of the front r

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