Across
- 3. They served as the ideal spectator, reacting as the author would want the audience to react.
- 5. ancient Greek word for a king who did not inherit their throne, but had taken it.
- 8. considered the father of Western philosophy.
- 12. Chorus in Greek means _____
- 14. The first great theorist of
- 15. How speech reveals character
- 16. an act of injustice
- 17. Something to shock the audience
- 18. Usage of words to express thought
- 19. god of wine and fertility
- 21. _____ is the origin of our word scene.
- 22. All of the performers, except musicians, wore _____
- 24. The arrangements of the events in the play
- 25. Non-speaking extras
Down
- 1. Greek plays usually takes place in _______
- 2. first recorded theatrical event – best tragedy contest.
- 4. comes from the Greek verb meaning “to do” or “to act.”
- 6. part man and part goat, famous for being drunk and sexual.
- 7. art, who defined the word tragedy in his work Poetics.
- 9. ______ comes the the Greek word theatron, which means place of seeing.
- 10. Part lion, part eagle, and part woman
- 11. Song sung by chorus should be part of the plot
- 13. Support the plot. Their motivation drives the play
- 17. wrote around 123 plays, only 7 of which survived
- 20. Who was the Sphinx sent by?
- 23. A creature in classical mythology who