Web Quest Assignment: Greek Theatre

Web Quest Assignment: Greek Theatre 2016

Name ______Per ______Date ______

Visit the links that follow to research the answers to the questions below about Ancient Greek theater practices and personalities. The numbers in parenthesis following the questions refer to websites on this list where your answers can be found. Many of the answers appear on multiple sites. Write your answers on your copy of this document. Greek Theater Links:

1. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/drama/p/Aeschylus.htm

2. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekliterature/a/GreekTheater_2.htm

3. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greektheater/ss/120109GreekTheater_2.htm

4. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekliterature/a/GreekTheater.htm

5. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sophocles/p/Sophocles.htm

6. http://www.crystalinks.com/greektheater.html

7. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/thtr/hd_thtr.htm

8. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grdr/hd_grdr.htm

9. http://www.krucli.com/greek_drama_notes.htm GONE

10. http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Theater.html GONE

11. http://quizlet.com/1176599/greek-drama-terms-flash-cards/

12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_unities

13. http://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/1402/1023,581,1402

(Revision note: Two of the sites are no longer available. Answers have been provided for several questions to help.) 1. What does the word “tragedy” mean in Greek? (6) 1.______

2. Were Greek plays performed indoors or outdoors? (3, 6, 7) 2. ______

3. During what season of the year did the Greeks of Athens 3. ______hold their play festivals? (2)

4. About how long did a play festival last? (2) 4. ______

5. Who won the first festival of plays in Athens and is therefore considered the first actor? (2) 5. ______

6. Could Aristophanes have gone to school with Aeschylus? (13) 6. ______

7. Who wrote the Poetics? (2) 7. ______8. Which playwright added a second actor? (1) 8. ______

9. What term did Aristotle use to describe the fall of a noble 9. hamartia man caused by some excess or mistake in behavior? (9)

10. What is the term for the building from which the 10.______actors entered? (3, 7) 11. List Aristotle’s six elements of drama: (11)

11a. ______b. ______

c. ______d. ______

e. ______f. ______

12. What is a chiton? (8) 12. ______

13. How many women were allowed to act in Ancient Greece? (2) 13. ______

14. According to Aristotle, from what social class 14. ___nobility______should the tragic hero come? (9)

15. Which playwright introduced painted scenery? (5) 15. ______

16. What was the name of the open area of the theater where the chorus performed? (3) 16. ______

17. Were Greek plays performed indoors or outdoors? (10) 17. ______

18. What is the term for the songs or hymns 18. ______the chorus sang in the earliest festivals? (6)

19. What does the term deus ex machina literally mean?(11) 19. ______

20. What is the general meaning of deus ex machina? (9) 20. ___a forced or contrived ending to a story or play___

21. What is the name of the ramps leading to the acting area that the chorus used for entering? (3) 21. ______

22. Define the three unities: (12)

a. Unity of Time: ______

b. Unity of Place: ______

c. Unity of Action: ______.

23. What was built into the Greek actor’s mask to 23. __a megaphone______help him project his voice? (9)

24. What is hubris? (9) 24. __excessive pride______

25. Of what was Dionysus the god ? (11) 25. ______Greek Webquest Bonus Questions: Name ______

Extra Credit: Try these after you finish the first 25 questions to boost your score.

26. During the Golden Age of Greece, each playwright presented a series of plays at a Dionysian festival. Of what did this series of plays consist? (2)

26. ______

27. Of Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aeschylus, 27. ______who is the youngest? (10)

28. What is the name of the wheeled platform used 28. ______in Greek theater staging? (7)

29. In what year was Antigone written? (5) 29. ______

30. Who added the third actor? (5) 30. ______

31. How could actors easily play more than 31. ______one character? (2)

32. Which comic playwright was best known during 32. ______the Old Comedy period of Greece? (2)

33. In what town did Sophocles grow up? (5) 36. ______

34. Which was written first, Antigone or Oedipus the King (Rex)? (5) 37. ______

35. What is skenographia? (5) 38. ______

36. Which comic Greek playwright was best known for his New Comedy writing? (4,) 39. ______

37. Which Greek tragic playwright survived an onstage attempt on his life? (1) 40. ______

38. Which Roman comic playwrights were influenced by Menander? (4) 42. ______&______

39. What military office did Sophocles hold? (5) 43. ______