Ancient Greek Theater: The Houses Of Classical Greece

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For Entertainment in Greece theaters in towns were used for festivals, usually for a holiday or to honor a god. On these days, everyone in town except the slaves went to the theater to watch four plays that were comidies, or tradgedies. Actors in the plays played more than one character in each play. They wore different mask so that the audience knew which character they were playing. The masks were very important becomes all of the actors were men, and they had to play both male and female parts.

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-The Houses of classical Greece were usually modest in scale and built with mostly cheap materials. They varied from two to three rooms clustered around a small court to a dozen or so rooms. City house exteriors presented a plain face to

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