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Ancient Greek Theater Aim: How can we trace back the origins of theater to Ancient Greece? Do now: why do people go to the theater? Watch a movie? Read a book?

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Page 1: Ancient Greek Theater Aim: How can we trace back the origins of theater to Ancient Greece? Do now: why do people go to the theater? Watch a movie? Read

Ancient Greek Theater

Aim: How can we trace back the origins of theater to Ancient

Greece?Do now: why do people go to the theater? Watch a movie? Read a

book?

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Word Origin

The modern term, drama, comes from the Greek word,

dran, meaning “to do.”

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Dionysian Festivals• Drama began in ancient Greece

dating back to 543 B.C.

• It started as choral performances of dancing and singing honoring the

Greek god, Dionysus, the god of wine

• Later they held drama contests to honor him

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Tragedy

A character is confronted with a difficult moral choice and usually

ends in his or her death.

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Comedya humorous entertaining

performance with a happy ending.

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MasksIn Greek drama, the actors all wore to help the audience the character

they were playing.

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Stage

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Theatron

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Orchestra

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Parados

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Skene

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Skene

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