History of Greek Theater- Desmond Reese

2. A creature in classical mythology who was part man and part goat.
3. god of wine and fertility.
6. support the plot.Their motivation drives the play.
7. traditional, performed by large choruses.
10. part lion, part eagle, and part woman.
15. How speech reveals character
17. the word comes from the Greek verb meaning “to do” or “to act.”
19. wrote around 123 plays, only 7 of which survive, and won best playwright contest.
21. Latin title for the play called Oedipus Tyrannus in Greek.
24. Something to shock the audience
26. derived from thespis
27. emphasized the attempts of human characters to control their own destinies.
29. non-speaking extras
30. The arrangements of the events in the play

1. major festival honoring Dionysus
4. the seeing space
5. considered the father of Western philosophy.
8. means dance in Greek
9. the dancing space
11. one of the key influences on greek drama (of Homer)
12. Usage of words to express thought
13. wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
14. hut or tent
16. man of noble stature
18. A very wealthy city,had approximately 250,000-300,000 people.
20. Theater in the ___ can be traced back to ancient Greece (c. 500 B.C.)
22. Song sung by chorus should be part of the plot
23. the alter
25. ancient Greek word for a king who did not inherit their throne, but had taken it.
28. first great theorist of dramatic art, who defined the word tragedy in his work Poetics.