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