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Polis
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Ciy-state, referring to Athens.
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City Dionysia
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Massive rural civic spectacle festivals with dramatic performance at the center of a religious festival. Structured around a series of constests. Magistrate assigned rich sponsors to tragic dramatists, who funded, chose and trained players. Dramatists wrote a trilogy of unrelated plays. Prominent citizens acted as judges.
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Archon eponymous
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City magistrate who honored selected wealthy citizens by choosing them to finance one of the three principal tragic dramatists competing for a prize in the City Dionysia.
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Choregos (pl. choregoi)
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Sponsor chosen by Archon, responsible for hiring the chorus of young men who sang and danced in City Dionysia plays. Hired musicians and provided costumes and support for the playwright. Housed and fed performers
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Dithyramb
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Hymns sung and danced by a large chorus, sponsored and performed by tribes. One men's, one boys'.
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Satyr play
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Rugged force following each complete trilogy of plays in City Dionysia.
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Protagonist, deuteragonist, tritagonist.
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First, second, third contestants in City Dionyisa plays.
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Proagon
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"Before the agon [performance]", actors, choruses displayed, unmasked garlands
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Eisagog
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Introduction icon of Dionysia, thyrsus and mask, dressed, procession
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Pompe
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Parade through the city; male citizens, ephebes, bull, etc. Led by a virgin. Satirical, assembled at theater at the end.
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Strategos (strategoi)
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Generals
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Events at the theater
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ritual purification, libations poured by 10 strategoi, announcement of distinguished citizens given bolden crowns, receive tribute from subject states in Athenian empire, display slaves and gold, orphaned sons of war dead presented suits of armor (ephebes)
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Trilogy
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Three plays (almost always unrelated) submitted by playwrights for City Dionysia.
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Agora
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Market square
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Theatron
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Seeing place.
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Parodos
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Passageway into orchestra.
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Orchestra
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Central circular performance area, "dancing place"
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Skene
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Low building, originally temporary behind orchestra
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Machina
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Machine, crane (Medea)
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Ekkyklema
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Rolling platforms for bodies, etc
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Periaktoi
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Possibly pyrmaid shaped revolving devices to display "scenic" info
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Theorikon
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Fee payed by state treasury to each citizen to attend City Dionysia
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Propedria
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Seats in front for priests, etc.
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Kerkides
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wedge-shaped sections of the ampitheater
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phalanx
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Fighting unit; three rows of five soldiers; best center front, second best front right, best row front, second best rear
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Kothurnos (kothurnoi)
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Tall shoes used for tragedy
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Chiton
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Short tunic worn in comedy
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Phallos
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Outsized leather phallus worn in comedy
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Choryphaios
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Leader of the chorus
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Parados, stasimon, parabasis, expodos
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Coming in, standing, moving back and forth, leaving
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Peripeteia
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Reversal in the external situation or fortune of the protagonist.
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Anagnorisis
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Recognition in which the character responds to the peripeteia
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Catharsis
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Purgation of pity and fear
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