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GITKIN MIDTERM EXAM HISTORY UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Greek Era
Answer:
Greek tragedy is an extension of the ancient rites done in honor of Dionysus and
heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance. Tragic plots were
most often based upon myths from the oral traditions of archaic epics. In tragic theatre,
however, these narratives were presented by actors.
Question:
Dionysus
Answer:
What Greek God was honored in regarding the theatre?
Question:
Oral traditions and archaic epics
Answer:
What are the Greek tragic plots based upon?
Question:
Aeschylus Sophocleous Euripides
Answer:
What are the three Athenian Tragedians.
Question:
Aeschylus
Answer:
Rules of drama, trilogy, 2nd actor.
Question:
Sophocleous
Answer:
Added 3rd actor and increased size of chorus.
Question:
Euripides
Answer:
Deus ex machina, lessened the size of the chorus.
, Question:
Aristophanes
Answer:
Comic playwright of ancient Athens.
Question:
Thespis
Answer:
according to Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, was the first person ever to
appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play.
Question:
Fate and Destiny
Answer:
Many Greek legends and tales teach the futility of trying to outmaneuver an inexorable
fate that has been correctly predicted. This form of irony is important in Greek tragedy,
as it is in Oedipus Rex
Question:
Tragic Hero
Answer:
is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is fated
by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great
suffering. But the hero struggles mightily against this fate and this cosmic conflict wins
our admiration.
Question:
Roman Period
Answer:
From the Greeks it absorbed and made its own, the religion (what we refer to as
mythology [changing the names] and theatre.
Question:
Titus Maccius Plautus
(c. 254 - 184 BC)
Answer:
He commonly known as "Plautus", was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin
period. His comedies (ie: Pseudolus "The clever slave" - an example of the stock
character common in Plautus' works) are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin
literature.
Question:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 4 BC - AD 65)
Answer:
He as a dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin
literature. He is regarded as the source and inspiration for what is known as 'Revenge
Tragedy.'
GITKIN MIDTERM EXAM HISTORY UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
Greek Era
Answer:
Greek tragedy is an extension of the ancient rites done in honor of Dionysus and
heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance. Tragic plots were
most often based upon myths from the oral traditions of archaic epics. In tragic theatre,
however, these narratives were presented by actors.
Question:
Dionysus
Answer:
What Greek God was honored in regarding the theatre?
Question:
Oral traditions and archaic epics
Answer:
What are the Greek tragic plots based upon?
Question:
Aeschylus Sophocleous Euripides
Answer:
What are the three Athenian Tragedians.
Question:
Aeschylus
Answer:
Rules of drama, trilogy, 2nd actor.
Question:
Sophocleous
Answer:
Added 3rd actor and increased size of chorus.
Question:
Euripides
Answer:
Deus ex machina, lessened the size of the chorus.
, Question:
Aristophanes
Answer:
Comic playwright of ancient Athens.
Question:
Thespis
Answer:
according to Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, was the first person ever to
appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play.
Question:
Fate and Destiny
Answer:
Many Greek legends and tales teach the futility of trying to outmaneuver an inexorable
fate that has been correctly predicted. This form of irony is important in Greek tragedy,
as it is in Oedipus Rex
Question:
Tragic Hero
Answer:
is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is fated
by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great
suffering. But the hero struggles mightily against this fate and this cosmic conflict wins
our admiration.
Question:
Roman Period
Answer:
From the Greeks it absorbed and made its own, the religion (what we refer to as
mythology [changing the names] and theatre.
Question:
Titus Maccius Plautus
(c. 254 - 184 BC)
Answer:
He commonly known as "Plautus", was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin
period. His comedies (ie: Pseudolus "The clever slave" - an example of the stock
character common in Plautus' works) are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin
literature.
Question:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 4 BC - AD 65)
Answer:
He as a dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin
literature. He is regarded as the source and inspiration for what is known as 'Revenge
Tragedy.'
