- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes: The big 4 writers
- altar: was located in the middle of the orchestra
- Cothurmus: worn by athenian tragic actors
- deus ex machina: the use of gods to solve complicated problems; an unlikely improbable ending to a story line
- diazoma: Horizontal walkway separating upper and lower sections of theatron
- Dionysian Festival: theatre festival with comedies and tragedies
- dithyramb: a song sung by a chorus; origin of greek theatre
- ekkyklema: a wheeled wagon used to bring dead characters into view for the audience
- Kerkis: Wedge-shaped seating section in theatron
- Klimakes: Stairways in theatron
- Menander: writer during the Hellenistic period who wrote new comedies
- New Comedy: comic farces about the lives of ordinary citizens
- new inventions: theatre of dionysus; theatre competitions
- orchestra: the space between the audience and the stage; Circular in early Greek theatre construction
- paradoi: means of entering and exiting the stage for actors
- paraskenion: one to two story side wings on either side of the proskenion
- Pinakes: pictures hung into the scene to show a scene's scenery
- priest of Dionysus: the name of the large center chair facing the stage at eye level
- progastreda: worn on the stomach by a male actor to play a female role
- proskenion: raised platform in front of the skene
- prosterneda: a wooden structure in front of the chest worn by an actor to play female roles
- skene: the back building in greek theatre
- sock: The actors with comedic roles only wore a thin soled shoe
- Sophocles: greek tradgic playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex
- Theatre of Dionysus: first theatre; formed the blue print of later theatres; located in athens
- theatron: first: space for audience then: both space for audience and performance
- Thespis: the first actor in a play
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