Greek History Xavier W.
Across
- 2. Where were the best seats in the theater (side, center, back, front)
- 4. What is the origin of our word scene.
- 6. Usage of words to express thought
- 11. What was prohibited to happen on the stage
- 12. How speech reveals character
- 15. comes from the Greek verb meaning “to do” or “to act.”
- 18. What was In the middle of the orchestra
- 20. Emphasized the attempts of human characters to control their own destinies
- 21. How many types of performers were there in Greek theater
- 22. What does chorus mean in greek
- 24. The major festival was the City ______
- 25. Support the plot. Their motivation drives the play.
- 26. Song sung by chorus should be part of the plot
- 27. How was the orchestra set up (rectangular, circular, etc)
Down
- 1. What kind of people were the best seats saved for
- 3. Who won the first recorded theatrical event
- 4. Who wrote around 123 plays that only 7 survived to this day
- 5. The arrangements of the events in the play
- 7. How many people were normally in a chorus
- 8. Greek drama was presented at festivals honoring the god ________
- 9. When the rules changed how many speaking actors were allowed
- 10. What greek word did theater come from
- 13. What is an “imitation of an action
- 14. Something to shock the audience
- 16. What city had had approximately 250,000-300,000 people.
- 17. Whowas the first great theorist of dramatic art, who defined the word tragedy in his work Poetics.
- 19. What were used to make it easier to switch characters and let males play female characters
- 23. What is a creature in classical mythology who was part man and part goat, famous for being drunk and sexual.
- 25. What was part of theater that added color, movement, and expressed opinions