Festivals and People
Festival honoring Dionysis
City Dionysia
Serious play with a sad ending
Tragedy
Audience seating
Theatron
Crane lifting actors
Mechane
Central story
Plot
Greek god of wine and theatre
Dionysus
Comedy after tragedies
Satyr Play
Circular dancing place
Orchestra
Wheeled platform
Ekkyclema
Moral figures
Characters
First actor to step out of the chorus
Thespis
Greek for 'goat song'
Tragos
Side entrances
Parados
Modern word for proskenion
Proscenium
Central decisions
Thought/Theme
Leader of the chorus
Choragus
Knowing the play isn't real
Aesthetic Distance
Raised acting platform
Proskenion
Machine used for gods
Mechane
Use of language
Diction
Author of Poetics
Aristotle
Last-second solution
Deus Ex Machina
Backdrop building
Skene
Aristotle's element that deals with the chorus
Melody/Music
Spectacle