Ancient Greek Theatre History

Pacifist/Humanitarian

Tragicomedy that included mock drunkenness, pranks, and merriment.

What happened on Day Three-Five of City Dionysia?

Won City Dionysia 5 Times; Once after Death (The Bacche)

What word did we derive “theatre” from?

Passionate, wild choral hymn sung by fifty men and boys honoring Dionysus.

On Day Six (the final day), what was the winner was crowned with?

On what day of City Dionysia was the dithyramb contests?

Started Writing After Dionysus Visited Him in a Dream

Six- Day Festival honoring Dionysus.

Wrote 92 Plays; 18 Survived

The theatre where City Dionysia was held.

Wooden storage building built behind Orchestra.

Wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone

When did City Dionysia begin and where?

What was NOT a part of Day One of City Dionysia?

Died being torn apart by dogs or women

Sang and danced; Told audience what's going to happen and how they should feel.

“Goat Song;” Main character suffers extreme sorrow due to tragic flaw

Plays Emphasized Women

Father of Tragedy

What was carried in Day One’s processional and where did processional end?

Wrote Oresteia Trilogy

Wrote Over 90 Plays; 7 Survived

Wrote Medea, Hecuba, and Trojan Women; One satyr= The Cyclops

Works making audience laugh through jokes and humorous situations.

What is Dionysus NOT a god of?

Died from eagle dropping tortoise on his head

Where chorus enters and exits.

Won City Dionysia 24 Times; Never placed below 2nd

Son of Zeus and Semele; Born from Zeus’s thigh.

One of the Greatest Playwrights of All Time

Flat circular area where chorus performed.

Where audience sat.

Wrote 120 Plays; 7 Survived