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Chorus
100
Which playwright won the "Festival of Dionysus" 24 times?
Sophocles.
100
What is the term that fits the following description: "The last action of the play"
Exodus
100
What is hubris?
Excessive Pride
100
Greeks built their theatre's _______.
Into hillsides
100
All actors wore _____?
Masks
200
Who combined tragedy and comedic elements in their plays?
Euripidies
200
What term fits the following definition: "Periods of more action by the actors"
Episodes
200
Who was the first actor?
Thespis
200
What happened on the first day of the Festival of Dionysus?
A big parade/processional through the streets.
200
Who was required by law to pay for the cost of training and costumes for the chorus?
The choregus
300
Which playwright was the first to use scene painting?
Sophocles
300
What term fits the following definition: "The actors present the opening situation on stage".
Prologue
300
An emotional release is called a(n)______?
Catharsis
300
What is considered to be the true spectacle of Greek Theatre?
The singing and dancing elements.
300
What did the chorus represent in the context of the play?
A group of people
400
Who added the second actor?
Aeschylus
400
What term best fits the following definition: "the entering song and dance of the chorus"
Parados
400
Which god were the Greeks worshipping at the festivals where the plays were performed?
Dionysus
400
What does the Greek word 'theatron' mean?
The watching place
400
Where did the chorus reside?
In the orchestra
500
Who limited the chorus to 15?
Sophocles
500
What term best fits the definition: "Choral ode or song commenting on the action"
Stasima/stasimon
500
In a tragedy, the plot revealed what happened to a person who went against the law of the _____?
Gods
500
What symbolic object was placed in the middle of the orchestra?
An alter
500
Explain the difference between the masks the chorus and the actors wore
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