Playwrights
Theater Structure
Gods
Dates
Places/Festivals
100
This man wrote "Poetics", a collection that critiqued theater.
Who is Aristotle?
100
This is clear area in front of the Greek audience was where the chorus sang and performed.
What is the orchestra?
100
She was married to Zeus and tried to kill Dionysus's mom.
Who is Hera?
100
This was the century that most of the influential playwrights lived.
What is 5th Century?
100
This is where the women guarded the Acropolis.
What is Athens?
200
This tragedian playwright increased the number of actors to three and increased the dithyramb to fifteen.
Who is Sophocles?
200
This place literally means "seeing place" and is the hillside where the audience sat.
What is the Theatron?
200
This was the alternate name for Dionysus.
Who is Bacchus?
200
This was the year that an award was first given at the City of Dionysia and the man to receive it was Thespis.
What is 534 BC?
200
This is the city state that was Athens main rival.
What is Sparta?
300
This man was the comedian of 5th Century B.C. Athens.
Who is Aristophanes?
300
This structure was an alter to Dionysus and it replaced the phallus from the original dithyramb rituals.
What is the Thymele?
300
He was the god of the gods and had an affair with Dionysus's mother.
Who is Zeus?
300
This was the year that Greek comedy was first introduced to the City of Dionysia.
What is 486 BC?
300
This was the Athenian treasury.
What is the Acropolis?
400
This tragedian increased the number of actors to two, which allowed dialogue.
Who is Aeschylus?
400
This was the wooden changing room that doubled as a set.
What is the Skene?
400
She was Dionysus's mother who had an affair with Zeus.
Who is Semele?
400
This was the year that Lysistrata was first performed.
What is 411 BC?
400
This is the festival that showed off Greek comedy during the winter trade season.
What is Lenaia?
500
In addition to introducing an actor, Thespis also brought in this element that allowed a single person to play the role of different characters.
What is a mask?
500
This was the pivoting prisms that changed the settings of the play.
What is the Periaktoi?
500
He was Dionysus's satyr sidekick.
Who is Pan?
500
This was the date that Ms. Cusick's theater history II class went to go see Lysistrata.
What is February 10?
500
This is the festival where tragedy was mainly performed all year round.
What is the City of Dionysia?
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