History of Greek Theatre - Jackson Lehman
Across
- 3. non-speaking extras in dramas
- 5. What a hero gains from their downfall
- 8. The arrangements of the events in
- 11. A creature in classical mythology who was part man and part goat
- 13. Where the word scene comes from(means hut or tent)
- 15. Had high-backed seating reserved for them along with judges
- 19. Greek dramas were performed to honor which greek god
- 20. Would sing and dance between dramatic episodes
- 21. an altar placed in the middle of the orchestra
- 24. Sophocles increased the number of what in plays
- 25. The chorus expressed the author's what
- 26. A flat terrace below the slope of a theater (means dancing space)
- 28. Greek word for a king who did not inherit their throne, but had taken it
- 29. Where the word theater comes from (means seeing space)
- 31. a monster sent by the goddess Hera to protect the city of Thebes
Down
- 1. greek drama emphasized the attempts of human characters to control their own what?
- 2. a character of noble stature, who is not an ordinary man
- 4. What the seats were made of in theaters
- 6. The priest of dionysus
- 7. the maximum number of speaking actors a playwright could have as of 430 B.C
- 9. Word derived from the earliest known actor and playwright, Thespis
- 10. the first great theorist of dramatic art
- 12. Greeks were against showing acts of what on stage
- 14. All performers except for musicians wore what
- 16. Won best playwright more times than anyone else and only has 7 surviving plays
- 17. The structure of a drama would be what
- 18. Literary critics attribute the fall of the hero to a what
- 22. comes from the Greek word that means "to act"
- 23. What was the major festival of the 4 held in Athens
- 27. A wealthy city in Greece that made many cultural/ technological advances in the 5th century
- 30. play