The Theater
This is where the audience sat.
What was the theatron?
This play opens in a city burdened by a plague.
What was Oedipus Rex?
This festival celebrated the god Dionysus.
What was the City Dionysia?
The group of people who told stories by chanting and moving in unison.
The god of wine, women, and song. Greeks celebrated him by creating th City Dionysia.
Who was Dionysus?
This is where the chorus performed. In Greek, the word means "dancing place".
What is the orchestra?
This play was about women refusing their husbands to keep them from going off to war.
What was Lysistrata?
This goddess was considered the goddess of wisdom and warfare.
Who was Athena?
The first person to step out from the chorus and speak as a character.
Who was Thespis?
The patron of Troy, this Greek god was god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses.
Who was Poseidon?
The outdoor structure where the plays were performed.
What was an amphitheater?
In this play, the hero Jason rejects his wife and marries someone with greater social advantages.
What was Medea?
This word is derived from the name of the first actor and means "someone involved in theater".
What is "thespian"?
This character unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
Who was Oedipus?
The goddess of wisdom, this figure appears in the final play of the Oresteia trilogy to deal out justice for Orestes.
Who was Athena?
This wooden structure didn't survive the ages, but was the part of the theater that served as dressing rooms and provided a place for entrances and exits.
What was the skene?
This type of play features a character with a fatal flaw and ends unhappily.
What was a tragedy?
This crane was used to drop the actors playing gods and goddesses into the scene on stage.
What was the mechanae?
Seeking revenge, this character sent a deadly gift to her ex-husband's fiancée and then killed their sons.
Who was Medea?
He pulled the sun across the sky each day and his oracle at Delphi warned Thebes about their King.
Who was Apollo?
This rolling cart was used to display the bodies of characters who had been murdered.
What was the ekkyklema?
What was a satyr play?
This playwright was known as "the father of tragedy".
Who was Aeschylus?
This hero returned from war with a concubine and was murdered by his children.
Who was Agamemnon?
In Antigone, the title character charges her uncle with defying the laws of this figure, known as the king of the gods.
Who was Zeus?