Classical Drama and Theatre: A Complete List of Terms to Know Terms to Know From Section 1: Chapter 1 Theatre History Theatron Historiography Institution Historia Theatrical Herodotus Language Ionian Revolution Impersonation Primary Evidence Audience Secondary Evidence Positivism Inference Progress Cogent Primitive Tripartition E.K. Chambers Battle of Thermopylae Chorus Ibn Kahldun Chapter 2 Transitional Forms Herodotus Bronislaw Malinowski The Histories Aetiological Relics Claude Levi-Strauss Fossils Structuralism Aristotle Lumpers James Frazer, The Golden Bough Splitters Anthropology Mimetic Positivism Chapter 3 Age of Tyrants Pelasgians Tyrannos Indo-Europeans Pisistratus of Athens Proto-Indo-European Attic Ionians Age of Lawgivers Athens Solon Asia Minor Sicily Dorians Black Sea Peloponnese Age of Colonization Trojan War Magna Graecia Epic Phoenicians Homer Lyric Age The Iliad Lyre Heinrich Schliemann Lyric Poetry Troy Sappho Polis Classical Age 1 Chapter 4.1 City Dionysia Thespis Ecstasy Tragoidia "Nothing To Do With Dionysus" Aristotle Year-Spirit The Poetics William Ridgeway Dithyramb Tomb-Theory Bacchylides Hero-Cult Theory Trialogue Gerald Else Dionysus Chapter 4.2 Niches Paleontologists Fitness Charles Darwin Nautilus/Nautiloids Transitional Forms Cultural Darwinism Gradualism Pisistratus Steven Jay Gould City Dionysia Punctuated Equilibrium Annual Trading Season Terms to Know From Section 2: Chapter 5 Sparta Pisistratus Peloponnesian War Athens Post-Classical Age Classical Age Macedon(ia) Persian Wars Barbarian Pericles Philip II Parthenon Alexander the Great Acropolis Hellenistic Age Philosophy Papyri Sophists Stoicism Protagoras Romans Socrates Humanism Plato Chapter 6 Interiority City Dionysia Presentationalism Trilogies Acropolis Satyr Play Orchestra Lenaea Theatre at Thorikos Theatra (Theatron) Skene Voice Skenographia Theatre of Dionysus Ekkyklema Courtroom Trials Mechane 2 Orestes Stichomythy Orestes Protagonist Clytemnestra Deuteragonist Three-Actor Rule Tritagonist Multiple-Role-Playing Choregos (Choregoi) Trialogue Chorodidaskalos Chapter 7.1 The Siege of Miletus Agathon The Phoenician Women The Symposium Aeschylus Inscriptions Sicily Epigraphical Prometheus Bound Athenian Victory Lists Persae Parian Marble The Oresteia Choerilus Clytemnestra Pratinas The Libation-Bearers Phrynichus The Eumenides Chapter 7.2 Deianeira (Women of Trachis) Sophocles Phaedra (Phaedra) Probouloi Hippolytus Dexion Electra (Electra) On the Chorus Antigone (Antigone) Unconnected Trilogies Greek Language Chorus Paronomasia Oedipus (Oedipus the King) Chapter 7.3 Orestes (Orestes) Euripides Furies Select Plays Apollo Alphabetic Plays Electra Melodramas Pylades Rescue Plays Red Herrings Helen (Helen) Trojan Slave Menelaus The Bacchae "Surly and Unconvivial" Cadmus (see Reading 2) The Cretans Semele (see Reading 2) Minotaur Dionysus (see Reading 2) Minos Pentheus (see Reading 2) Pasiphae Agave (see Reading 2) 3 Terms to Know From Section 3: Chapter 8 Prometheus the Fire-Bringer Dios Apate The Trackers Aphrodite and Ares Cyclops (Polyphemus) Komoidia Odysseus Komos (pl. Komoi) Comic Plots Komastai Lenaea Vase Paintings "Fourth Wall" Dorian Farce Parabasis Phallos (Phalloi) Chionides Sicily Magnes Epicharmus of Syracuse Cratinus Satyr Play(s) Dionysalexandros Satyr(s) Pherecrates Silenus Eupolis Pratinas The Demes Aeschylus The Taxiarchs Chapter 9 The Wasps Aristophanes The Peace Scholia/Scholiasts Euripides The Banqueters Thesmophoriazusae (Thesmophoria) The Babylonians Lysistrata (Lysistrata) Cleon The Frogs The Acharnians Dionysus (see Reading 4) The Knights Heracles/Hercules (see Reading 4) The Clouds Socrates Chapter 10 Chorou Thebans (Thebes) Five-Act Rule Philip II of Macedon Alexis of Thurii Alexander Parasitos (Parasite) Koine Menander Stoicism Philemon Epicurean(s) Diphilus Mime Dyscolus Platonius Moschion Middle Comedy Demeas Theophrastus, The Characters Smikrines Character Syros Euripides Samia Embolima Chrysis 4 Chapter 11 Bronteion Panhellenic Keraunoskopeion Agonothetes Charon's steps Polus Mime The Artists of Dionysus Archimime Exposition Hero(n)das, Mimiambi Interpolations The Oxyrhynchus Mime Terms to Know From Section 4: Chapter 12 Second Punic War Italy Scipio Africanus Alps Hellenism Sicily Marius Latin Sulla Gaul(s)/Celts Pompey 753 BCE Julius Caesar Romulus and Remus Brutus Etruscans/Etruria Ides of March 510 BCE Octavian Republic Mark Antony Patricians Pax Romana Senate Augustus Plebeians Imperator Legion Capitol Magna Graecia Colosseum Carthage/Carthaginians Pompeii First Punic War Decline and Fall Hannibal Middle Ages Chapter 13 Fabulae Palliatae Native Italian Drama Novius Literary Drama Pomponius Popular Entertainment Scaena Histrio Scaenae Frons Persona Pulpitum Fescennine Verses Versurae Fescennium Orchestra Hilarotragodia/Phlyax Plays (Phlyaces) Cavea Rhinthon of Syracuse Concrete Oscans Altar Atella Grex Atellan Farce (Atellenae) Dominus Maccus Theatre of Pompey Commedia dell'Arte 5 Chapter 14.1 Stock Types Livius Andronicus (240 BCE) Greek Originals Ludi Romani Saturae Gnaeus Naevius Dis Exapaton (Sostratos) Titus Maccius Plautus Bacchides (Mnesilochus) Chapter 14.2 Andria Caecilius Statius Luscius Lanuvinus Terence Contaminatio Adelphoe Hecyra Sermo Purus Apollodorus of Carystus Hrotswitha (Hrotsvit) Thraso Manuscripts Micio Aelius Donatus Dramatic Suspense Prologues Chapter 15 Ars Poetica Quintus Ennius In Medias Res Fabulae Praetextae Seneca Octavia Performability Marcus Pacuvius Stoicism Lucius Accius Sententiae Popular Entertainment Atreus Bread and Circuses Thyestes Horace Phaedra Chapter 16 Charition Pantomime Byzantine Theatre Pylades and Bathyllus Christus Patiens (Christos Paschon) Venationes Islam Naumachiae Muhammad Mime 6.