A machine used for lifting and perhaps swinging characters into view of the Greek audience.
What is the mechane?
100
This Greek playwright decreased the size of the chorus from 50 to twelve.
Who is Aeschylus?
100
The least important "element of drama" as noted by Aristotle.
What is spectacle?
100
In OEDIPUS THE KING, who warns Oedipus to not pursue the truth?
Who is the blind man, Tiresias?
100
A lengthy hymn, sung and danced by a group of fifty men.
What is a dithyramb?
200
The Greek term for the "house" - where the audience sits.
What is the teatron?
200
He wrote The Poetics.
Who is Aristotle?
200
Regarding the six elements of drama: The rhythm and flow of the language.
What is music (or song or melody)?
200
Oedipus the King was written by:
Who is Sophocles?
200
This Greek playwright added a 3rd actor/character into his plays (on stage at one time not counting the chorus).
Who is Sophocles?
300
A wagon wheeled onstage to reveal characters that have died?
What is the ekklyema?
300
This playwright wrote MEDEA, THE TROJAN WOMEN and THE BACCHAE.
Who is Euripides?
300
Regarding the six elements of drama: The major ingredient for the advancement of the plot.
What is character?
300
In LYSISTRATA, the female country bumpkin character from Sparta is:
Who is Lampito?
300
This playwright wrote Greek new comedy.
Who is Aristophanes?
400
Some Greek theatres placed an altar in the center of the orchestra. This term for altar is:
What is thymele?
400
This play was the first anti-war play and was written by:
What is LYSISTRTA and who is Aristophanes?
400
Regarding the six elements of drama: The ideas explored in the play. What the playwright had to say.
What is thought?
400
In OEDIPUS THE KING, Jocasta kills herself by:
What is hanging herself?
400
List the five architectural parts of a Greek theatre. It is helpful if you can also do a rough floor plan of a Greek theatre to aid you in the labeling of these parts.
What are (in no particular order): 1) teatron, 2) orchestra, 3) parados, 4) skene, 5) thymele
500
Triangular scenic units with a different scene painted on each side were known as:
What is the periaktoi?
500
The playwright was the most skillful of the Greek playwrights and also set the size of the chorus at 15.
Who is Sophocles?
500
List the six elements of drama as noted by Aristotle.
What are: 1) plot, 2) character, 3) thought, 4) dialogue/diction or language, 5) song, music or melody and 6) spectacle.
500
In THE BOOK OF D, the bus driver imagines his bus to be a _____________ driven by this mythical character.
What is a chariot and who is Helios?
500
List the characteristics of tragedy as outlined in the class presentation?
What are:
1) The protagonist must deal with problems that are serious and profound.
2) The protagonist must battle a flaw within themselves or evil in others.
3) The protagonists must struggle against forces greater than they.
4) The protagonist undergoes tremendous suffering, question their own being and see the foundation of their world shaken.
5) The protagonist reconciles with the world having to be both an individual and a part of a mysterious and larger entity.
6) The protagonist is of noble birth.