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Father of drama
Thespis
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theatron
Seeing place where the audience sits
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Orchestra
Circular dancing place where actors and chorus preform
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Thymele
Alter to Dionysus
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Skene
Building used as dressing room
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Proskenion
Facade of skene building that is a backdrop
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Parodos
entrance to theater used by chorus
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Tragic play timeline
One day
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Messenger 1
tells news that happens away from scene
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Messenger 2
Reports violence that cannot be seen
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Tragic flaw
Hamartia
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Bio parents
Jocasta and Laius
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Oedipus children
Eteocles and Ismene
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Theme in Oedious Rex
Fate
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Trilogy name
Theban plays
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Catharsis
When audience has a sense of relief
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Chorus function
Sets mood adds beauty divides actions gives reflection expresses opinion
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Motiff
common or repeating thing
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anagnorisis
Protagonist has self realization change from ignorance to knowledge
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Century Sophocles lived and wrote
496-406 B.C.