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| Seneca | Playwright that worked with magic, death, and superstition
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| Kothornus | thick boots and sandals
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| Logeion | Raised stage platform
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| Onkos | High head piece
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| Paraskenia | Ramps connected to the logion. Below stage level
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| Proskenion | Facade on the first level on the skene on stage level.
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| Episkenion | Facade on the second level
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| Thyromata | Entrance and exit points
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| Virtuvius | Continued to use periaktoi
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| Greco-Roman | Blending of Greek and Roman Culture
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| Agonothetes | Elected position to give state appropriated money to stage plays and festivals
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| Mime | literary form. Anything that was not regular drama
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| Phlyakes | Early form of mime
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| Etruria | Where most Roman culture came from
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| Etruscan | Another name for Etruria. Great thieves
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| Histrione | Word for actor in Roman Culture.
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| Ister | Word for actor in Roman Culture.
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| Ludi Romani | Oldest and most important of the Roman festivals.
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| Horace | The Art of Poesy (The art of Poetry). Plays should be five acts. Tragedy and comedy don't mix.
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| Aesthetic Distance | Psychological or emotional distance between audience and material
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| Stage House | Back stage
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| Audience Chamber | Where the audience is
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| Hellenistic Greece | Time when Alexander the Great came to power
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| Alexander the Great | Used 3000 people for the theater
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| Plato | Brought in the act of censorship
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| Dyskolos | only play by Meander to survive. Ended up in Bible
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| Artists of Dionysus | Protect the condition that artists work in. Early union.
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| Ludi Apollinares | Games held annually by the Ancient Romans in honor of the god Apollo
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| Ludi Florales | Honored Roman Goddess of fertility. Sexual content. Performed naked
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| Ludi Ceriales | Games of Ceres were held as part of the festival in the circus maximus
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| Bread and Circuses | Era where Romans did not have to work. Civil unrest.
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| Livius Andronicus | Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of Latin period.
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| Cantore | Chanter or singer
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| Mimus | Actors in the mimes
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| Saltator | Actor in the mimes
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| Roscius | Best known of the Roman performers. Performed comedy and tragedy
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| Ricinium | Hood attached to rest of garment. Made character unrecognizable
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| Centunculus | Patchwork jacket in a diamond pattern. Shaved headed acrobat.
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| Cavea | Audience chamber in the theater
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| Scaena | Stage House
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| Vomitoria | Openings between caveas
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| Pulpitum | Raised stage platform
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| Versurae | Entrances and exits on each end of pulpitum.
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| Angiportum | Passage way behind thyromata
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| Scanae Frons | facade of the scaena. Front of the stage house.
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| Scaenae Ductilis | Sliding scenery on tracks
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| Auleum | Front curtain that was lowered in the floor
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| Siparium | backdrop curtain that revealed the scaenae frons
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| Summum Choregium | Building close to Colosseum for extra props and ministry building
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| Theatrum Tectum | theaters with roofs
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| Domini | Managers
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| Grex | Acting company
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| Naumachiae | Reproductions of famous naval battles
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| Constantine | was the first emperor to make Christianity legal.
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| Theodosius I | made any religion other than Christianity unlawful
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| Tertullian | North African theologian. Wrote De Spectaculis
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| De Spectaculis | Says that Christians were to be excommunicated if they participated in theater.
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| Constantinople | Stable part of Roman Empire
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| Byzantine Empire | Eastern part of empire. Popular theater. Religious theater. Scholarly theater.
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| Hippodrome | Center of secular entertainment. Modeled after circus maximus. Hotbed of political activity.
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| Trullan Synod | Church meeting in 692 to discuss theater.It was banned.
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| Christos Paschon | A play written only to be read.
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| Islam | Treasured learning.
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| Trope | Interpolation into an existing text.
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| Flavian Amphitheatre | original name of Colosseum
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| Circus Maximus | Oldest and largest of structures designed for sporting events
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| Venationes | Wild animal fights
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| Medea | Greek play about scorned wife.
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