Setting the Stage
A Greek amphitheatre was surrounded by audience members on this number of sides.
Aristophanes and Menander wrote this genre of Greek Plays.
What is comedy?
The city that Oedipus was King of.
What was Thebes?
The Greek name of the Tragedy by Euripides that we now know as Hercules.
What is Heracles/Herakles?
The person known as the world's first actor.
Who was Thespis?
The theatron was the area designated for these people.
What is the audience?
This playwright was killed by an eagle dropping a turtle on his head.
The name of Oedipus's wife and mother.
Who was Jocasta?
The two types of comedy.
What are old comedy and new comedy?
A group of 15 actors in a play who comment on the action, provide background info, and represent the voice of the community.
What is a chorus?
The ekkyklema was a wagon used to roll out characters who had died because this was never shown on stage.
What is violence?
This playwright was known as the "Father of Comedy"
Who was Aristophanes?
The name of the monster who kills its victims if they answer its riddle incorrectly.
Who is the sphinx?
A character who goes through a change from the beginning to the end of the play.
What is a dynamic character?
A figure from ancient Greek mythology who foretold the future.
What is an oracle?
The periaktoi was painted on three sides and rotated so it could represent three different backdrops. Each column was in this shape.
What is a triangle?
This tragic playwright was known for adding the third actor.
Who was Sophocles?
The reason Tiresius's character is an example of dramatic irony.
What is, he is blind but he can see the truth?
This vocab word means having to do with family relationships or every day life.
What is domestic?
The name of the Greek god that the City Dionysia festival was honoring.
Who was Dionysus?
This area was used as actors' dressing rooms as well as the background for the action.
What is the skene?
This comedic playwright often used Stock Characters in his plays.
Who was Menander?
Oedipus's tragic flaw and its meaning.
The number of labors Hercules had to complete.
What is 12?
A prediction having to do with a character's fate.
What is a prophecy?