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Actors
History
Tech Elements
Evolving Theater
Playwrights
100
Female rolls.
what did guys play in Theater?
100
festivals (honor gods)
How did Greek Theater began?
100
a Theatron
what were ancient greek theaters called?
100
religous rites
what rites did ancient greek theater evolve?
100
Aeschylus
who was known as the great tragedian?
200
dithyrambous
When Greek theatre began in a _________, there were no actors.
200
3
how many actors where allowed to perform in eah play?
200
the skene was a tent or hut
when the greek theater began what what did they use for the Skene?
200
Dionysus (god of fertility and procreation)
what god did (Thrace) a cult did they whorshipped?
200
He wrote around 89 plays, of which we have only seven.
how many playwrights did Aeschylus wright?
300
sybolic
what kind of snifigance did actors have?
300
the chorus
because of the limited actors, what was a very active part in the Greek Theater?
300
a stone structure.
What kind of structure did they build the theater after tents and hunts?
300
the dithyramb
what was the essential part of the rites did of Dionysus?
400
Aeschylus
. The poet Thespis was the first to use actors. What was the Secound?
400
Dionysus
The greeks put on a festival called by "City Dionysia". what god did they honor?
400
the orchestra, the skene, and the audience.
what main 3 elements did the theater consisted?
400
1200 B.C
how back did greek theater start evolving?
400
18
Sophocles, an older contemporary of Euripides. How many victories did he win?
500
The hypocrites
One of the chorus groups were all men. Whats the name of the group?
500
Athenians spread these festivals to its numerous allies in order to promote a common identity.
who started to spread these festivals and why?
500
fourteen thousand.
how many people could the theatron hold up too?
500
500 B.C
at what time did the Thrace whorshipped Dionysus?
500
We know of a total of 123 plays written by Sophocles, of which a mere seven survive.
how many play wrights did Sophocles,make?