Greek Playwriting Competition
The two types of Greek drama performed at the Festival of Dionysia
What is comedy and tragedy
The first actor
Who is Thepis?
The city that was the main center for the Greek Dionysian festivals and drama.
What is Athens?
This group of men often represented the townspeople and commented on the action of characters in a Greek play.
What is the chorus?
The viewing place or audience area in a Greek theatre.
What is the theatron?
The three things the winner of the playwriting contest won
Feast, ivy wreath, and sacrificial animals
Reduced the chorus from 50 to 12 men
Who is Aeschylus?
This is the festival where theatre really originated.
What is City Dionysia.
This is one reason why actors wore masks.
Change characters while using only a few actors
The passageways where chorus and audience made their entrances and exits.
What is the parados?
The number of playwrights allowed to enter the competition
3
He added the third actor.
Who is Sophocles?
Another word for actor.
What is thespian.
This is one purpose for the chorus.
What is -Gave background info -Commented on the action -Interacted with the characters -Described offstage action -Ideal spectator -Provide spectacle ?
The wagon that would be wheeled out on stage to reveal a character that had been killed off stage.
What is the ekkyklema?
This type drama dealt with love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods.
What is tragedy?
He wrote Medea.
Who is Euripides?
The god of wine, revelry and fertility.
Who is Dionysus.
This is where violence occurred in Greek tragedies
Off-stage
A crane that is placed backstage to lower gods into the scene
What is the deus ex machina?
The opening scene of a Greek tragedy that sets the action and provides background information.
What is the prologos?
He wrote The Poetics.
Who is Aristotle?
This is considered the ideal tragedy.
Who is Oedipus Rex?
Aeschylus
Who should study for this test?
Who is everyone?