Chorus and Costumes
The narrating group of actors who told the story to the audience were called this.
What is the chorus?
This literary device is a trait in a character that leads to their downfall.
What is a tragic flaw?
What is Oedipus Rex/Oedipus the King
The author of the Oedipus trilogy.
The festival of Greek theatre held in Athens.
What is Dionysia?
What is the "orchestra pit"
Someone who has a tragic flaw is often this of their piece.
What is the hero?
The third play of the Oedipus trilogy
What is Antigone?
The aspect of Greek theatre that the Oedipus trilogy's author introduced.
What is the third speaking character and the painted backdrop?
The god that the theatre festival honored.
Who is Dionysus?
What are tall shoes and plain socks?
Oedipus is called this. (hint: he messed up enough that he doomed himself)
What is a tragic hero?
The third play of the Oedipus trilogy is about this person. Name their relationship(s) to the main character of the first play.
Who is Antigone, sister and child of Oedipus?
Aeschylus's most famous work and the aspect of Greek theatre he introduced.
What are Oresteia and putting dialogue into plays?
The seeing place
What is the theatron?
The type of clothing that a character wore indicated this
What is class/Athenian and Non-Athenian?
Give an example of one of Oedipus's tragic flaws
What are hubris, short temper, and the denying of fate?
The second play of the Oedipus trilogy
What is Oedipus at Colonus?
The father of comedy and one of his most famous plays.
Who is Aristophanes and what are The Birds, The Frogs, and Lysistrata.
The stage, the altar to Dionysus, and the entrance to the stage.
What are the orchestra, the thymele, and the parados?
Supposedly the first person to have been an actor that played a character on stage in a play
Who is Thespis?
The most common tragic flaw
The three types of comedy. (hint: the first, the median, and the last) Name their characteristics.
What are four (one posthumous) and Medea?
The dressing building and and its front, usually used as a backdrop.
What are the skene and the proskenion?