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Across
  1. 1. "A place of seeing"; where audiences sat for Greek performances
  2. 5. The study of history and how things are recorded
  3. 7. A grand Roman spectacle which involved filling the performance venue with water and staging sea battles
  4. 9. Both men and women couldpursue this Roman acting profession
  5. 10. Another word for "surviving"
  6. 12. A recurring, unifying subject or idea found in plays
  7. 14. A device used for deus ex machina
  8. 15. The existence of multiple meanings of words, often affecting translations and interpretations of historical texts
  9. 17. Greek festival that awarded playwrights and drew large crowds of spectators
Down
  1. 2. Written and recorded materials historians use and reference
  2. 3. Used to identify types of characters in ancient Greek plays; may have aided projection
  3. 4. The amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought
  4. 6. The defining spirit or mood of a particular time in history
  5. 8. Many early performance traditions were religious ______
  6. 11. Aristotle's term for the purge of emotions the audience should undergo while watching a tragedy
  7. 13. A wheeled platform used in Greek theatre to display action that happened beyond the audience's view
  8. 16. Genre of performance; Old, Middle, and New in Ancient Greece