S1_Music + Theatre + Athletics

• barbitos: lyre with long strings and a very low pitch (used by Sappho and Alcaeus)
• kithara: a professional lyre, higher pitch than a barbitos
• pandura: a long neck lute with a small resonating chamber
• trigonon: small, triangular harp
• duaulos: double flute
• Koilon: tiered seats
• Diazoma: divider between the lower and upper rows of seats
• Orchestra: half-circular area in front of the proskenion that the chorus (composed of 24 men in Old Comedy) is in.
• Skene: background
• Proskenion: stage
• Didaskaliai: official records of dramatic performances
• Thespis: the name of first actor, who flourished under the tyrant Peisistratus
• Long Jumpers: swung weights called halteres
• Pythian games: laurel wreath, Delphi, honor of Apollo
• Olympic games: olive wreath (kotinos), 776 bc, Olympia, honor of Zeus and Pelops
• Isthmian games: celery -> pine leaves, Corinth, honor of Poseidon
• Nemean games: celery, Nemea, honor of Zeus
• What is a pandura?

  a long neck lute
• Where is the orchestra

  in front of the proskenion