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Comedy

"Tipsy procession song. A Merry Drama"

Dionysia

Festival of the wine god dionysus

Dithyramb

Song in honor of dionysus or local hero

Eleusinia

Mystery-celebration of the Mother and Daughter.

Satyr Play

Dramatic postscript to a tragic performance with the chorus of satyrs.

Tetralogy

Set of three tragedies and a satyr play performed in one day.

Tragedy

"Goat-song

Chorus

Collective persona of ancient drama

Coryphaeus

Leader of the chorus

Deuteragonist

Second actor

Deus ex machine

"God from the machine" a sudden and unlikely resolution of dramatic conflict

Hypocrites

the answerer

Kothournoi

Buskins of actors

Orchestra

"Dancing floor" where the chorus performs

proskenion

platform before the backdrop place of the dialogue portions

protagonist

first actor

skene

backstage construction with three entrances

thymele

altar in the middle of the orchestra

tritagonist

third actor

In the Supplicant Maidens_ the maidens flee from:

marriage

The Danaides arrive to Argos from:

Egypt

The Danaides claim their ties to their ARgive family through:

Io

King Pelasgus is in the hot spot because...

he has no good choice

Agon

dramatic conflict

commos

highly emotional song of chorus and actor a threnody

episodion

dialogue parts between the choral songs

exodos

exit song of the chorus

hyporheme

dancing choral song

monodia

actor's solo song

parados

entrance song of the chorus

stasimon

standing choral song

stichomythia

intense one-line dialogue

strophe and antristrophe

structure of choral lyrics

anagnorisis

realization of a hidden truth

ate

blind_ violent affect

apate

deception

dike

justice (a goddess)

erinys

curse goddess of revenge

catharsis

purifying relief

hamartia

mistake tragic flaw

hybris

excessive presumption

irony

outward assent suggestive of the opposite

moira

fate goddess(es) of destiny

peripeteia

sudden turn of circumstances

Who is Aeschylus

father of tragedy

who is arion?

reputed inventor of dithyramb and the chorus of satires

who is aristophanes?

author of the genre of 'Old comedy'

who is aristotle?

wrote the treatise 'poetics'

who is euripides?

tragedian most preserved

who is seneca?

roman tragedian

who is sophocles?

introduced the third actor

who is thespis?

reputed invento of theater

what was aeschylus accused of?

profanation of Eleusinian Mysteries

what was aristophanes accused of?

personal attacks on fellow citizens

what was euripides accused of?

misogyny

what was phrynichus accused of?

having stirred the emotions of the audience too deeply

what was sophocles accused of?

senile incompetence

what was thespis accused of?

being a fake impersonator

What is most unusual for Aeschylus in the drama Prometheus Bound?

Tyrannial Nature of Zeus

Prometheus is one of the...

older gods

Zeus wants from prometheus:

revealing the secret

Prometheus had planted "blind hopes" in the minds of men in order to:

erase the foresight of death

Io is the victim of Zeus:

love

The Persians is the only extant greek tragedy with:

the plot on contemporary history

The persians commemorates the...

Battle of Salamis

Who flogged the Hellesponte?

Xerxes

The drama Persians treats the enemy's losses with...

compassion

The action of the Persians is set in:

Persia

Agamemnon

The king murdered by wife.

Antigone

She performs funeral rites for her outlaw brother.

Clytemnestra

Electra

Matricide’s drama

Hippolytus

The victim of stepmother’s fatal attraction.

Iphigenia

In Aulis-The maiden Sacrificed, In Tauris-Now prisetess of the savage Taurians the maiden meets her brother Orestes and escapes.

Medea

Abandoned wife kills her children.

Oedipus

The Parricide’s Drama

Orestes

Matricide’s Drama

Pentheus

Phaedra

The Fatal Attraction

Prometheus

Is a Titan and the benefactor of mankind that is punished by Zeus.

Prometheus took it away from mortals

Foreknowledge of death

Actors wore them to appear taller

Kothournoi

His daughter came to communicate with Prometheus

Ocean

Her son will surpass his father

Thetis (a sea nymph (of one the nereids))

They were the chorus of funny drama concluding every three tragedies

Satyr play

They saved Arion

Dolphins

He invented Drama

Thespis

They are the chorus of prometheus bound

Oceanids

Prometheous Called her “One shape of many names”

Gaia Goddess of earth

It fell on Aeschylus’ head

Turtle( Aeschylus was killed when an eagle mistook his head for a rock and dropped a tortoise on it)

She lost her human shape as a result of divine love

Lo

They were not in acient classical drama

Women

He was forced to chain his friend to the rock

Hephaesthus

Aeschylus was charged of revealing it

Eleusinian Mysteries

It was the secret of prometheous

Which goddess will bear Zeus’ successor

It was the place of Prometheous torments

Caucasus mountains

She was the first women

Pandora

He came to prometheus’ rock as messanger from Zeus

Hermes

She is the muse of tragedy

Melpomene

He will free promtheus

Heracles