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- 4. a monster sent by the goddess Hera to protect the city of Thebes
- 6. song sung by chorus should be part of the plot
- 7. The first winner of the best tragedy contest
- 14. support the plot and their motivation drives the play
- 16. plot, characters, thought, diction, melody, and spectacle
- 18. how speech reveals character
- 19. facilitated rapid change of roles, made it easier for male actors to play female characters, and helped the actor in assuming roles of different types
- 22. something to shock the audience
- 23. the latin title for the play oedipus tyrannus in greek
- 25. the origin of our word scene and provided a space for actors to relax or change costumes
- 26. could play several roles and after 400 B.C. the amount of these permitted were limited to 3 per playwright
- 28. the first great theorist of dramatic art and defined the word tragedy
- 30. one of the two major influences on greek drama
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- 1. usage of words to express thought
- 2. the arrangements of the events of the play
- 3. Another one of the two major influences on greek drama
- 4. was born in 496 B.C and wrote around 123 plays and won the best playwright contest at the festival fore 24 times
- 5. the theater is on the slope of the hill below the Acropolis in Athens and has a theatron, orchestron, and a thymele
- 8. increased the number of actors in plays to three and set the number of people in the chorus to 15
- 9. a fault of character such as pride or jealousy
- 10. an ancient greek word for a king who did not inherit their throne but had taken it
- 11. A creature in classical mythology that was part man and part goat and was famous for being drunk and sexual
- 12. a man of noble stature who has a greatness about him
- 13. Was the major festival and was a religious and civic celebration
- 15. God of wine and fertility and was honored at each of the festivals
- 17. comes from the greek word theatron which means place of seeing
- 20. Can be traced back to Ancient Greece
- 21. divided into four categories of actors, musicians, supernumeraries, and chorus
- 24. Comes from the greek verb meaning "to do" or "to act"
- 27. in greek means dance and its main role was to sing and dance
- 29. Lived during 5th century Athens and is considered to be the father of Western philosophy