This early instrument was used in Greek music in ancient times.
What is a lyre.
100
The vase pictured, Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice, is from what period?
What is Ancient Greek.
100
This Greek writer brought the third actor to Greek tragedy.
Who is Sophocles.
100
Identify using "picture on the left" and "picture on the right" which one is a Greek theater and which one is Roman.
What is the picture on the left is Greek and the picture on the right is Roman.
200
Theater is a ritualistic art form which celebrates these gods who often appeared as characters.
What are Olympian gods.
200
Greek music was largely this type, consisting of a single melodic line.
What is monophonic.
200
The number of Greek plays that have survived.
What is 33.
200
Three different playwrights each wrote a version of this tragedy, but Sophocles' version is the most famous.
What is Oedipus Rex.
200
This Roman playwright's plays were all based on New Greek Comedy, and many of his plots and characters were borrowed by Shakespeare and Moliere.
Who is Marcus Plautus.
300
This was considered a civic duty in ancient Greece.
What is participation in theatrical productions.
300
Greeks did not cultivate this type of music with the simultaneously sounding of independent parts of equal importance.
What is polyphony
300
This choral ode was sung in honor of Dionysus by a chorus of 50 men.
What is the Dithyramb.
300
This was a long, flowing robe, padded at the shoulders for width, selected in symbolic colors.
What is a chiton.
300
Name four of the stock characters used by Plautus:
What is the young man, old man, pair of slaves, parasite, courtesan, slave dealer, braggart soldier.
400
Athenians were taught to do these two things from a very early age.
What is sing and dance.
400
The musical system used in Ancient Greece was based on a series of these.
What are tetrachords.
400
The term Deus Ex Machina translates into what in English?
What is "God Out of the Machine."
400
These were revered and exempt from military duty in ancient Greece.
What were actors.
400
The last Roman performance was in this year, 1066 years after Thespis won the first Greek Tragic Contest.
What is 533 CE.
500
Plays were initially held with just this, a group of actors speaking in unison.
What is the chorus.
500
This is a type of Greek Tetrachord which consists of an augmented step, half step, half step.
What is chromatic.
500
His plays were used as models by Renaissance playwrights.
Who is Seneca.
500
These were made out of wood, but no originals remain, only stone carvings which may have been used as molds for these.
What were masks.
500
Name three things that led to the downfall of Roman theater.
What is decay and fall of the Roman empire, the barbarians who came down from the north and plundered the cities of the empire, and the hostility of the church.