Greek Theatre

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When were dramas performed?

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At religious festivals

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What is the Lenaea?

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Dionysian festival with tragic and comedic drama competitions, but comedy more important

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When were dramas performed?

At religious festivals

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What is the Lenaea?

Dionysian festival with tragic and comedic drama competitions, but comedy more important

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What is rural Dionysia?

Local dionysian festivals in the deme

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What is connected within the City Dionysia?

Coming of spring, reopening of sea lanes and the festival of the City Dionysia

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Who organised the City Dionysia?

eponymous archon

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What is a choregos?

Financial provider for the play

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What is a dithyramb?

Choral dance in honour of Dionysus

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Aristotle on Judges of Drama

‘not to be like the sort of girl who can only remember the fellow she slept with last’

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What is the theatron?

The area where the audience sat

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What is the prohedria?

The front row of the audience, with a seat reserved for the priest of Dionysus

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What is the orchestra?

Where the chorus of the play performed

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What are the eisodos, or parados

The ways onto the stage

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What is the skene?

Building behind the stage where actors got changed

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what is the wheel platform?

Wooden platform on wheels that usually depicted indoor scene, perhaps of character who died offstage

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what is a mechane?

lifts figures above the stage

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who was the actor that stepped out from the chorus?

Thespis

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what is a satyr play?

a light hearted tragedy

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what are kothornoi?

leather boots worn by actors

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why were masks used by the chorus?

to make expressions more visible

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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’

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Who is the famous vase named after?

Pronomos