Abstract
It is impossible to imagine the ancient Greek theatre without the mask, whether it is tragedy, comedy or satyr plays. All theatrical forms that developed in Athens during the 6th and 5th centuries BC were forms of masked drama. The mask was an organic element in this new form called theatre because the mask is the medium per excellence for the embodiment of the Other and participates in the creation of the stage as a site of the dialogue between the Self andthe Other. But the mask was an organic element of the theatre because in ancient Greek theatre the mask is organically connected through its facial appearance to the ecstatic cries found in the dramatic texts and to the theatre space through its acoustical form. Acoustics permeated all aspects of the ancient Greek theatre and was a way to create even better participation for the audience enhancing its acoustico-visual and synaesthetic experience.
Highlights
It is impossible to imagine the ancient Greek theatre without the mask, whether it is tragedy, comedy or satyr plays
Theaomai means to bring to light, make apparent, to witness a spectacle
The word is derived from thea, sight, view, the sense of watching something attentively for a long time, especially from above, as from a mountaintop
Summary
Visuality in the Graeco -Roman World” in Visuality before and Beyond the Renaissance ed Robert Nelson Cambridge,Cambridge University Press, 45-69. 3. The building is the expression of an age that saw the flourishing of mathematics and acoustics, the influence of Pythagorean science It is the best preserved of the classical Greek theatres and most the seats are in their original places. The theatre of Epidaurus is part of a complex of buildings situated in the nearby valley They all belong to the sanctuary of Asclepius the god of health, medicine and healing. Plutarch wrote that it was important that the actor’s voice should command a wide register of emotions and temperament He wrote in his biography of Demosthenes, the great rhetorician, about the lesson Demosthenes learned from Satyrus, the actor who showed to him how the appropriate sentiment and disposition changed totally the perception of the speech.[12].
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