Roman Empire Terms
Histroines
What are the names of Pelops children?
Thyestes and Atreus
Name one of the three playwrights whose play(s) still exist today.
Plautus, Terence, and Seneca
Much like when thirty thousand other individuals watch sports ... this kind of architecture is a Roman invention.
Stadium
True or False?
Did Roman drama have more of an influence on modern drama than greeks?
True
The stage of a Roman Theatre?
Scaena
Who killed Thyestes children?
Atreus
Roman theaters tended to build around what?
Temples
What language was spoken by Romans?
Latin
These moved water into the cities
Aqueducts
Why did Atreus want revenge on his brother Thyestes?
Thyestes had an affair with Atreus wife
Why did the Romans build their stages with wood?
Rome adopted many gods from the ____
Greeks
What did they call a Theatre in Rome?
Cavea
How did Atreus reveal to Thyestes that he just ate his own children
He kept the heads of the children, and presented it to Thyestes on a plate
Actors would use machinery to permit them to fly through the air. What was their ideology behind this?
Representation of an entrance from the heavens
Instead of having an actor on stage, spoken words, or mimed action, the Romans would instead have what on stage?
A musician entertaining the audience.
Frames the stage and separates the actors from the audience
proscenium arch
How does Thyestes get revenge on Atreus?
He took advantage of his own daughter, whom had a son who later assassinated Atreus
situated in front of the stage, a circular or semi-circular space where the chorus and musicians performed
Orchestra
Unlike the Greeks, instead of the chorus being in charge of the music, the actors instead did what?
The actors would sing their lines