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He is wishes to punish the people of Thebes for not worshiping him.
Who is Dionysus (or Bacchus or Bromius)?
100
Dionysus is the god of this beverage.
What is wine?
100
He is credited with being the first actor in ancient Greece.
Who is Thespis?
100
He wrote The Bacchae.
Who is Euripides?
100
Pentheus dresses in this manner to spy on the Bacchants.
What is as a woman?
200
He rules Thebes and refuses to worship Dionysus.
Who is Pentheus?
200
When she kills Pentheus, Agave believes she has slain this animal.
What is a mountain lion.
200
Pride against the gods, it is often a Greek tragic hero's flaw.
What is hubris?
200
He is a renowned Greek tragedian credited with adding a third actor.
Who is Sophocles?
200
He is an old blind prophet who wants to worship Dionysus.
Who is Tiresias?
300
She is Pentheus's mother.
Who is Agave?
300
When she returns from Mount Cithaeron near the end of the play, Agave proudly carries this item on a stake.
What is Pentheus's head?
300
He wrote comedies in ancient Greece.
Who is Aristophanes?
300
It is the area in an ancient Greek theater where the chorus danced.
What is the Orkestraia?
300
They are the aisles in a Greek theater by which the chorus enters and exits.
What are parados?
400
He is Pentheus's grandfather.
Who is Cadmus?
400
Worshipers carry this item, a staff covered with vines and leaves, in honor of Dionysus.
What is a thyrsus?
400
A religious festival in ancient Athens that included play competitions.
What is the City Dionysia?
400
They are bawdy, comic skits performed between tragedies.
What are satyr plays?
400
They are songs sung in honor of Dionysus from which, it is believed, Greek theater evolved.
What are dithyrambs?
500
She was Dionysus's mortal mother.
Who is Semele?
500
Cadmus and Tiresias wear it in their hair as they dance to honor Dionysus.
What is ivy?
500
They are the three unities of Greek tragedies.
What are time, place and action?
500
The were the first comedy competitions in Greece.
What are the Lenaia?
500
He is credited with adding a second actor to Greek tragedies.
Who is Aeschylus?