The Role of the Chorus in Ancient Greek Tragedies

The opinions of the Choir 's justice differ between Euripides' Medea and Aeschylus 'The Libation Bearers'. In The Libation Bearers and Medea, the driving force of revenge connects the chorus and the hero in each play. For both the plays, the chorus begins with the strong support of their hero who believes that the behavior taken by these characters is fair and correct to retaliate against the mistakes they or their family made. However, Medea's chorus is far from the original idea of ​​moral defense of revenge.

The chorus role in ancient Greek dramas * works were not included in the ancient Greek drama, the chorus role was to sing lyrical verses. The author sets up lyrical sentences and the choir performs dance moves to praise the lyrics. In today's era, many musical actors describe it as a choir. However, in some cases, the chorus will help modern readers explain ancient terms used in this era.

In many Greek tragedies, choir plays an important role. It is used for many things such as clarifying people's feelings and establishing the meaning of facts in the stories and pointing out. Among the kings of Oedipus, choirs provide services for these functions and give readers a deep understanding of the beliefs of ancient Greeks. The function of the chorus is not only for dramatic purposes. For the audience, the chorus was first used in Greek tragedy. In ancient Greece, the drama was held at a large amphitheater which can accommodate about 10,000 people. As actors can not express their own voice, the group of actors read the line together. By doing this, it makes it easy to hear what everyone is saying. (Wat)

In ancient Greece, the chorus was a very important part of Greek tragedy, but it was not the most important part. Daniels and Sculley, author of what actually happened at Theban's Theban play, said that "the characteristics of the Greek tragedy is not harder than the chorus". Not only is this translated to students by reading texts. If students understand the importance of the chorus before you start reading, you will tackle more reading. This helps to better understand the meaning of the chorus. It is essential for interpreting the text. I would like to concentrate almost all of this unit on the role and function of the chorus and the information that it gives to the reader (or audience) through the play. This is an important way to read (or observe) the tragedies, especially since our interpretation is very different from that of ancient Greeks. 2