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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ritual efficacy | this is what theatre grew out of. |
| Dionysus | Greek god of fertility and wine. Depicted in two different manners. As an older bearded man= wine, younger androgynous male- fertility. Dionysus was born out of zeus's knee. Zeus was caught having an affair with a mortal and to protect him from Hera put him in his knee. |
| Greek Mythology | Center of all greek understanding. Many |
| satyrs and maenads | male and female followers of Dionysus. Left house and home for drunken orgies in the woods. Satyrs always depicted with erect peni. Maenads also aka as bacchae. Prominent characters in satyr plays, which followed a trilogy with a lighthearted look at the preceding stories. |
| dithyrambs | hymn like choral poems sung by 50 men to Dionysus. A competition eventually grew out of these and then they become literary. |
| 534 BC | Most important date in Theatre History. Year Thespis won the dramatic competition at City of Dionysia. |
| City Dionysia | Festival in honor of Dionysia, held in Athens. Birth place of drama |
| Thespis | First actor, leader of a chorus- call and response- credited for the invention of theatre. Won the competition in 534 BCE |
| 6th Century tragedy | ... |
| 5th Century tragedy | ... |
| the chorus | comprised of 50 men, including a leader. call and response |
| actors | hypocrites=answerer. Grew out of dithrambic chorus. First actor was Thespis. |
| trilogies | ... |
| satyr plays | ... |
| Aechylus | ... |
| The Oresteis | ... |
| Agammemnon | ... |
| Libation Bearers | ... |
| The Eumenides | ... |
| Sophocles | ... |
| Oedipus the King | ... |
| Antigone | ... |
| Euripedes | ... |
| The Bacchae | ... |
| Medea | ... |
| The Cyclops | ... |
| Greek mimes | ... |
| Greek Theatre Space diagram | ... |
| theatron | ... |
| skene | ... |
| thymele | ... |
| paradoi (parados) | ... |
| Did women attend Greek plays? | ... |
| Was there a raised stage? | ... |
| masks | ... |
| mekane | ... |
| dues ex machina | ... |
| ekkyklem | ... |
| pinake | ... |
| periaktoi | ... |
| Greek costuming | ... |
| Aristotle | ... |
| The Poetics | ... |
| Aristotle's six elements of drama | ... |
| katharsis | ... |
| hamartia | ... |
| anagnorisis | ... |
| peripety | ... |
| Greek Old Comedy | ... |
| Aristophanes | ... |
| Lysistrata | ... |
| agon | ... |
| parabasis | ... |
| episodes | ... |
| "happy idea" | ... |
| komos | ... |
| Greek New Comedy | ... |
| Menander | ... |
| "The Grouch" | ... |
| Hellenistic Greece | ... |
| kothomoi | ... |
| onkos | ... |
| Hellenistic theatre space | ... |
| Roman comedy | ... |
| Plautus | ... |
| Casina | ... |
| The Menaechmi | ... |
| Terence | ... |
| Phormio | ... |
| Was Terence the first Black playwright? | ... |
| Roman Tragedy | ... |
| Seneca | ... |
| Medea | ... |
| Roman entertainments | ... |
| gladiatorial combat | ... |
| chariot races | ... |
| naumachiae | ... |
| animal shows | ... |
| acrobatics | ... |
| theatre (Greek style) | ... |
| Circus Maximus | Circus Maximus- large stadium/circuit in which chariot races were held. Could fit up to 12 chariots side by side. Located in Rome. |
| The Colosseum | Located in Rome. Large performance venue, where many different types of entertainment occurred. Not floodable. |
| Roman mimes | Performance groups consisting of one actor, a chorus with a musician. The troupes played for the wealthy at their homes when hosting parties and events |
| Roman pantomime | The street version of the Roman mimes |
| Roman Theatre Space diagram | ... |
| cavea | ... |
| orchestrea | ... |
| scaena | ... |
| pulpitum | ... |
| scaena frons | ... |
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