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Ancient Greek Theater
Title: Ancient Greek Theater
Category: History
Details: Words: 2017 | Pages: 8.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ancient Greek Theater
ORIGINS OF ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA
The roots of ancient Greek theater lie in the religion of Dionysus, the god of wine, who was one of the Olympian deities honored at Athens and somewhere else in the Greek world. In myth, Dionysus' followers were satyrs, drunken half-animal, half-human creatures, and mainades, or "mad women". In ancient Greek times, Dionysus' followers sometimes understood these roles in their religious rituals, consequential in a great deal of dancing, drinking, …showed first 75 words of 2017 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2017 total…place in a picture frame. Greek theaters also had entrances for the audience called parodoi. The paradoi (plural of parados) were tall arches that came out from the sides of the stage, through which the audience entered. By the end of the 5th century BC, the skene, the back wall, was two stories high. The upper story was called the episkenion. Some theaters also had a raised speaking place on the orchestra called the logieon.
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