Major Plays
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Theatre Parts and Examples
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A play by Aeschylus written in the classic period that won first prize in the dramatic competitions in Athens' City Dionysian festival in 472 BCE.
What is "The Persians"
100
The bragging character in a Greek play.
What is "the senex"
100
A theatre from 300 B.C. to 133 B.C. built into a hill
What is "Miletus Theatre"
100
The most important theme of a play, involving sadness, loss, and abuse.
What is "tragedy"
100
The time period in which Greek theatre was popular.
What is "550 B.C. to 220 B.C."
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A comedy written in 414 BCE with 1,765 lines
What is "The Birds"
200
The enemy of the Senex
What is " Eiron"
200
The place where most plays were performed.
What is "Athens"
200
Another very popular theme of play, most of which were written by Aristophanes.
What is comedy
200
The effect of the wardrobe has.
What is the theme, style, and emotion.
300
A Sophocles play written in 406. BCE with 1,779 lines
What is "Oedipus at Colonus"
300
The idiot in a Greek play.
What is the Bomolochus
300
The circular part of the stage where all of the seats lead up to.
What is the orchestra
300
Short plays involving a mix of comedy and tragedy.
What is satyrplays
300
This group of people wore long white robes.
What is "the Athens"
400
The lyric poem written in 570 BCE with 28 lines.
What is "Hymn to Aphrodite"
400
The character who is more humble than the senex.
What is the Eiron
400
The theatre that was open aired and in Athens and was built on the south slope of the Athenian Acropolis.
What is "Theatre of Dionysus"
400
This type of play had a mask looking like this.
What is comedy
400
What most of the plays were about.
What is the Greek gods.
500
The tragedy written in 413 BCE with 1,498 lines
What is "Iphigenia in Tauris"
500
The most famous person for writing tragedies.
What is "Aeschylus"
500
The area behind the orchestra which is a rectangle.
What is the skene.
500
The kind of play this mask represents.
What is tragedy.
500
The method of a hidden face
What is a mask
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