Ritual
Greek Theatre
Basics of Drama
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100
The two most popular types of Greem drama
What is comedy and tragedy
100

The first actor

Who is Thespis?

100
The city that was the main center for the Greek Dionysian festivals and drama.
What is Athens?
100
This group of men often represented the townspeople and commented on the action of characters in a Greek play.
What is the chorus?
100
The viewing place or audience area in a Greek theatre.
What is the theatron?
200
These were short plays performed between the acts or tragedies. They made fun of the plight of the tragedy's characters.
What is a satyr play?
200
The first playwright and founder of Greek drama.
Who is Aeschylus?
200
This is the festival where theatre really originated.
What is City Dionysia.
200
This is one reason why actors wore masks.
What is: -Visibility and characterization - Sound assistance - Lack of actors?
200
The passageways where chorus and audience made their entrances and exits.
What is the parados?
300

An enacted symbolic representative myth or archetypal story

What is ritual?

300

Primitive hunters used these elements to help tell their stories

What are masks, pantomime, ritual dance & chants?

300
Another word for actor.
What is thespian.
300
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 ?
300

Around this year women were allowed to attend Greek Theatre.

What is 400 BC?

400
This type drama dealt with love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods.
What is tragedy?
400

The name of the young girl in one of Sophocles' most famous tragedies.

Who is Antigone?

400
The god of wine, revelry and fertility.
Who is Dionysus.
400
This was the guy who was the producer of hte plays and paid for all the major expenses of a production.
What is the choregus?
400

The round shaped section of a Greek theatre where the actors performed. 

What is the orchestra?

500
The opening scene of a Greek tragedy that sets the action and provides background information.
What is the prologos?
500
He was the first play critic.
Who is Aristotle?
500

King of the Olympian gods

Who is Zeus?

500

In Greek Theatre, tragedy is translated to mean this.  

What is Goat song?

500
An alter- served as a reminder that Greek drama was part of religious rituals.
What is the thymele?
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