... house, backstage. proskenion=raised stage in front of skene perform) .mekane =actors lowered onto stage and enacted roles of olypian gods messing with human affairs. Deus ex machine= the god from the machine. rescue characters, last minute, unsatisfying means of solving problems no religious text TRAGEDY, focused on person of noble birth. moira=fate. catharsis=purging of pity and fear ... directly. unusually complicated plots. had managers/producers slave musicians, 2 fans paid for his productions, plautus repetitive he was more that a translator but at the time R's wanna b G's and he w...

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... . He began his career as a playwright when he won the Dionysia, a prestigious annual theater competition. From there, he wrote 120 plays in 62 years. 24 of his plays won first place in the Dionysia, and the rest placed second. He made many innovations to the theater, including a machine to raise and lower people to create the effect of flying and an increased number of people in ... the chorus to allow for a more involved plot. He also introduced the idea that people are responsible for their own actions and control ... "hostage," which he probably was, for he lived during a time of war...

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