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Chorus

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Group that comments on the action in a Greek play

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Satyr play

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Brief comic play that features men dressed as goats. Typically parried mythical and heroic tales

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Deus ex machina

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Character that comes down (god-like) and resolve the issues so everyone could have a happy ending

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Agon

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Scene when both sides discussed issues of the play

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Before —– there were never more than 2 actors on stage at a time

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Sophocles

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All Greek plays tend to take place in a short time

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24 hours or less

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First of three great Greek tragedian a

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Aeschylus

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Born in Eleusis in 545 BC

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Aeschylus

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Aeschylus famous play-

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Oresteia-trilogy about house of Atreus, family of Agamemnon

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The furies

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Aeschylus

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Born in Athens in 496 BC

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Sophocles

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Trilogy of Oedipus

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Sophocles

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Ajax and Philoctetes

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Sophocles

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Antigone

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Sophocles

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Born in Athens 484 BC

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Euripides

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Euripides famous plays

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Bacchae, Trojan Woman, Medea

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Last of the three great dramatists

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Euripides

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Born in 342 BC

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Menander

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Writer of what new comedy

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Menander

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Born in 448 BC in Athens

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Aristophanes

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Old comedy style?

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Aristophanes

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Aristophanes famous plays

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The Birds, the frogs, Lysistrata