Greek Playwrights
Actors
Costumes and Props
Oedipus the King
Lysistrata
100
Who wrote Lysistrata?
Aristophanes
100
What are dumb roles considered as?
Minor characters
100
Why did actors use costumes?
Social classes, gender, and age of a character
100
Why did Oedipus stab his eyes out?
His mom hung herself
100
What is Lysistrata's plot?
Lysistrata is about how a woman tries to end the Peloponnesian War
200
Who wrote Oedipus the King?
Sophocles
200
How were actors chosen?
Poets
200
Why did actors use masks?
Gender and age
200
What did the prophecy foretell with Oedipus and his family?
Oedipus killing his father and marrying his mother
200
What does Lysistrata want the men to sign?
A peace treaty
300
What type of playwright were Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides?
Tragedians
300
What type of roles were there for actors?
Leading roles and dumb roles
300
What are three props used in plays?
Helmets, spears, walking sticks, crown, and a lyre
300
What does Oedipus mean?
Swollen feet
300
What year did Lysistrata start to be performed?
411 BCE
400
Aristophanes was what type of playwright?
A comic playwright
400
Thespis introduced two actors. Who were they?
Aeschylus the second and Sophocles the third
400
What part of the costumes is amplified the voices of the actors?
The masks
400
Why was he named Oedipus?
He was named Oedipus because his parents bound his feet and they eventually became swollen
400
What do the Chorus of Old Women do to the Chorus of Old Men that wanted to burn the meeting spot of Lysistrata and the women of Greece?
They threw buckets of water at the old men's burning things
500
What was another play written by Sophocles?
Antigone, Electra, Ajax, and Oedipus at Colonus
500
Who chose the actors when a play was successful?
The State
500
Some plays even called for actors to wear ______ (Fill in the blanks)
Animal suits
500
What happened to Oedipus's feet?
They became swollen after his parents bound them
500
What did the women sacrifice until the war ended?
Intimacy with their husbands
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