When were dramas performed?
At religious festivals
What is the Lenaea?
Dionysian festival with tragic and comedic drama competitions, but comedy more important
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When were dramas performed?
At religious festivals
What is the Lenaea?
Dionysian festival with tragic and comedic drama competitions, but comedy more important
What is rural Dionysia?
Local dionysian festivals in the deme
What is connected within the City Dionysia?
Coming of spring, reopening of sea lanes and the festival of the City Dionysia
Who organised the City Dionysia?
eponymous archon
What is a choregos?
Financial provider for the play
What is a dithyramb?
Choral dance in honour of Dionysus
Aristotle on Judges of Drama
‘not to be like the sort of girl who can only remember the fellow she slept with last’
What is the theatron?
The area where the audience sat
What is the prohedria?
The front row of the audience, with a seat reserved for the priest of Dionysus
What is the orchestra?
Where the chorus of the play performed
What are the eisodos, or parados
The ways onto the stage
What is the skene?
Building behind the stage where actors got changed
what is the wheel platform?
Wooden platform on wheels that usually depicted indoor scene, perhaps of character who died offstage
what is a mechane?
lifts figures above the stage
who was the actor that stepped out from the chorus?
Thespis
what is a satyr play?
a light hearted tragedy
what are kothornoi?
leather boots worn by actors
why were masks used by the chorus?
to make expressions more visible
Aristotle on the characteristics of a tragic hero
‘involve a person who is not outstanding in either virtue or just behaviour, who falls into bad fortune through not vice or wickedness, but through some mistake’
Who is the famous vase named after?
Pronomos