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| Guy who invented actors. Grecian. 5th century B.C. |
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| where actors changed costumes in ancient Greece |
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| number of actors (besides the chorus) on-stage in Grecian theater |
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| Periaktoi - plural and Periaktos - singular |
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| Triangular prisms which could be pivoted to reveal three different backgrounds |
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| a wheeled platform containing mangled, bloody bodies of actors that fought off-stage |
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| assisting human characters in solving their problems by divine intervention. (god from machine) |
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| Father of Greek Tragedy. Wrote the Oresteia trilogy |
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| first play of the Oresteia trilogy in which the lead returns from 10 years of fighting war and acts with hubris and is killed by Clytemnestra, his wife. |
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| Added third actor to Grecian theater. Wrote Oedipus Rex about the king who saved the city of Thebes but killed his father and married his mother. |
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| written by Sophocles about a girl who tried to properly bury her dead brother but is killed by Creon in the end |
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| youngest and least popular of the three great writers of tragedy. Wrote Medea, about the sorceress who helped Jason win the Golden Fleece |
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| A powerful anti-war play written by Euripedes |
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| Writer of the Old Comedy, in which he poked fun at Socrates (The Clouds) and Euripedes (The Frogs) |
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| Play about women ending the 21-year Peloponnesian war. Written by Aristophanes |
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| Writer of New Comedy. He wrote The Curmudgeon. |
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