Oedipus Review

The Greek plays were performed in honor of which god?

• Apollo

• Dionysus

• Hermes

• Zeus

The plays were believed to be instructional AND ____

• inspirational

• entertaining

• mythological

• hypothetical

Citizens were required to

• throw things

• watch respectfully

• participate

• take notes

The theater could accommodate how many people?

• no one ever counted

• less than 200

• 15000

• 1 million

Why did stage directions, passage of time, setting, etc., have to be included in the dialogue?

• To help the actors remember

• There were no scenery or costumes

• The audience was forgetful

• The playwrights were not that good

How long would a performance last?

• less than an hour

• 2-3 hours

• Sun up to sun down

• about a weekend

A rectangular building with three doors in front (generic backdrop) is called

• parados

• skene

• proskenion

• hubris

broad aisles where chorus entered in tragedies

• parados

• skene

• proskenion

• hubris

excess of ambition, pride, etc

• parados

• skene

• proskenion

• hubris

The play opens with

• a dance to welcome the new king

• a quarrel with the prophets

• a plague on the city

• the fight between the two kings