Greek Theatre

• theatron 


  the seating place
• orchestra


  the dancing place
• skene


  backdrop
• paradoi


  passageway
• ekkykleme


  body trolley
• mechane


  crane
• deus ex machina

  god on crane
• prohedrion


  front row
• scholion


  commentators comment in a manuscript
• polis


  city-state
• eponymous archōn

  responsible for the city dionysia
• chorēgos

  financial supporter for plays
• proagōn


  introduction event for festival
• pompē


  grand religious procession
• tribes


  10 compulsory political divisions in athens
• kōmos


  relaxed festival involving singing and dancing in streets
• liturgy


  tax on the super rich to fund athens' events
• dithyramb


  choral dance to honour dionysus
• deme


  village or district in attica
• theoric fund


  state helping poor attend city dionysia
• agon


  confrontation between protagonist and antagonist in drama
• anagnorisis


  realisation of wrongdoings when it is too late
• catharsis


  releasing repressed emotions (cleansing or purification)
• climax


  height of action
• dramatic irony


  the audience knowing something a character does not
• empathy


  shared emotions with another
• hamartia


  fatal flaw
• pathos


  ability to evoke sadness or pity
• peripeteia 


  beginning of downfall
• sitchomythia


  alternating one-line dialogue