History of Theatre / Theater 1 - From Ritual to Theater / Ancient Greek Theater

On the origins of Western theater.
More on this subject - Mark Damen
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/ClasDram...
Personae:
Dionysus, Zeus, Arion, Thespis, hypokritos - answerer, Peisistratus, Phrynichus, Xerxes, Phoenician women, Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Cassandra, Aegisthus.
Terms:
thymele - altar, tragos - goat, dithyramb - hymn in honor of Dionysus, chorus, extase, enthoustase, The City of Dionysia Festival in Athens, tragedy, Trojan war, skene, prologue, parados, exodus.