Greek History Xavier W.

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)

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