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| Greek god of wine and fertility |
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| hymn sung at the altar of Dionysus, accompanied by dancing, singing, and perhaps. |
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| one of two religious festivals held in Athens each year to honor Dionysus |
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created theatre by stepping from a dithyramb chorus and playing an individual role. |
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wealthy citizen who would finance a play for competition |
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| largest of Greek theatres could hold 17,000 people built into the side of a hill below the Parthenon in Athens |
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| "dancing place", circular playing area of greek theatre |
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| "seeing place"- seating area |
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| entrance of the chorus to the orchestra |
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| Protagonist, Deuteragonist, Tritagonist |
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| first second and third actors in a Greek play, for competition purposes on 3 actors were allowed |
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| followed each episode, songs and dances by the chorus as it comments on actions of the play thus far |
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| summation by the chorus on the theme and wisdom of the play, at the end of the play |
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| pivoting device that allowed all the paintings to be changed in a flash |
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| a crane that could fly actors in over the skene |
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| "god from a machine", used to describe a contrived or unimaginative ending during which an implausible twist, such as a god flying in, solves lall the problems of the plot |
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| a platform that could be rolled out from the skene to reveal a tableau |
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"the warrior playwright" -earliest writer of greek tragedy whoms plays exist -profound spiritual and morral issues -Oresteia |
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Wise and honored one
won festival of dionysus 24 times, never less than second
Oedipus Rex |
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Never Afraid to Speak His Mind
-Medea most famous play |
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old comedy era wrote forty comedies
the clouds, the wasp, lysistrata |
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first known woman playwright in europe
nun |
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| musical begins with, orchestra plays a medley of the songs as a preview. |
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| loud applause that such numbers recieve |
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| repitition of the song sometimes with new lyrics or same lyrics to dramatize a point |
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