This was the most valuable type of tree in Greece.
What is an olive tree?
100
There were this many actors in Greek plays.
What is 3-4?
100
A tragic play by Sophocles that we learned about in class.
What is Oedipus the King? (or Oedipus Rex)
100
The three types of plays in ancient Greece.
What are comedy, tragedy, and satyr.
200
God of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses. He's considered one of the most bad-tempered, moody and greedy Olympian gods.
Who is Poseidon? (also will accept "Broseidon"
200
A day before she married, a girl did this to show she was grown-up.
What is sacrifice her toys to the god Artemis?
200
Actors used these to show emotions, switch roles, and play characters of a different gender.
What are masks?
200
This is the play about Oedipus' daughter.
What is Antigone?
200
This part of the theatre was where the actors changed. It also eventually became the backdrop/setting.
What is the skene?
300
God of theatre, wine, and revelry.
Who is Dionysus?
300
A foot soldier in a Greek army was called this.
What is a hoplite?
300
A group of performers who functioned as a commentary on and as an accompaniment to the action of the play.
What is the chorus?
300
The theme of the play "The Persians" by Aeschylus was this (also known as "overreaching pride").
What is hubris?
300
The type of play was irreverent, rude, and bawdy. It was personal and targeted real individuals, such as politicians.
What is comedy?
400
She's the Goddess of Love and Beauty and according to Hesiod’s Theogony, she was born from the foam in the waters of Paphos, on the island of Cyprus.
Who is Aphrodite?
400
These were the largest warships and had three banks of oars.
What are triremes?
400
A choral ode in which the chorus may comment on or react to the preceding episode; also known as a "stationary song".
What is a stasimon?
400
At the beginning of this play by Sophocles, the title character is enraged because Achilles' armor was awarded to Odysseus instead of him.
What is "Ajax"?
400
This was the slope or "watching place" from which the word "theatre" was derived.
What is the theatron?
500
Although both Poseidon and Apollo wanted to marry her, she made an oath to Zeus that she would remain forever pure and undefiled, never entering into a union with a man.
Who is Hestia?
500
The tunic that Greek women wore was called this.
What is a chiton?
500
This was the head chorus member who could enter the story as a character
What is the choragos?
500
This was a play by Euripides that showed the Athenians what they had done just the previous year -killed the men and enslaved the women - to the island of Melos.
What is "The Trojan Women"?
500
He was credited as the first writer of tragedy as well as the first actor.