Greek Theatre Terms

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Across
  1. 1. means "together;" a group of men singing and dancing together.
  2. 3. Greek God of wine, fertility, festivity, and theatre.
  3. 4. character, married to Laius, the former king of Thebes; and eventually to her son.
  4. 6. passage way into the theatre for members of the chorus.
  5. 8. character, a blind prophet of the god Apollo in Thebes; reveals who the killer of King Laius is.
  6. 9. at the center of the Orchestra; an alter that eventually became the standing position of the chorus leader.
  7. 10. character, sorceress and princess; kills her brother Apsyrtus to help her husband, and eventually kills her children in an act of revenge.
  8. 12. The first person to step out of the chorus and become the first "actor."
  9. 13. A round floor on ground level at the bottom of the hill.
  10. 14. ancient greek playwright; wrote "Oedipus Rex."
  11. 15. character, ancient Greek mythological hero who went on a quest for the Golden Fleece; cheats on his wife with king Creon's daughter, Creusa.
Down
  1. 2. character, solved the riddle of the Sphinx and became king of Thebes; greek for "swollen foot."
  2. 5. the background representing the temple or palace.
  3. 7. literally “god from the machine.”
  4. 9. "the seeing place," part of a hillside overlooking/surrounding the orchestra.
  5. 11. ancient greek playwright; wrote "Medea."