Ancient Greece

Question 1

List the Greek divinities associated with dance in Ancient Greece.

Answer 1

Apollo
Dionysus
Terpsichore

Question 2

Explain the difference between Apollonian vs. Dionysian elements in art and dance.

Answer 2

Apollonian represented offer and reason. It was formal and self-controlled.
Dionysian was associated with drunkenness, chaotic, irrational, passionate, and ecstatic

Question 3

Who were the Maenads?

Answer 3

Female followers of Dionysus

Question 4

What’s a thyrus?

Answer 4

Staff with a pine cone. Symbolized fertility

Question 5

Who were the Satyrs?

Answer 5

Male followers of Dionysius

Question 6

What is a dithyramb?

Answer 6

Choral hymn performed in honor of Dionysus

Question 7

Who is a choregos?

Answer 7

Person who financed the play and trained the chorus

Question 8

What does the word tragedy mean?

Answer 8

“Goat song”

Question 9

Who was Thespis and what did he do?

Answer 9

The father of Greek Theater

Question 10

Name three important Greek playwrights who wrote tragedies.

Answer 10

Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles

Question 11

What were the choral dances like?

Answer 11

Lyrics and meter influenced the movement

Music ,poetry, gestures and dance

Question 12

What were the chorus members wearing?

Answer 12

Wore masks, soft shoes or boots

Question 13

What were masks like?

Answer 13

Linen, wood or leather

Question 14

What is cheironomia?

Answer 14

A vocabulary of drama

Question 15

What is emmelia?

Answer 15

Stately dignified choral dance associated with tragedy

Question 16

What were satyr plays?

Answer 16

Burlesque versions of well known myths and legends

Question 17

What is a sikinni?

Answer 17

Lewd dance associated with satyr plays

Question 18

Explain how comedies differed from tragedy

Answer 18

Comedies satirized contemporary events and/ or the techniques of tragic poets while satyrs were burlesque versions of well-known myths and legends

Question 19

What is the kordax?

Answer 19

Lewd dance associated with comedies

Question 20

Did women do pyrrhic dance? If so, why?

Answer 20

Yes, it made them fit for childbirth

Question 21

What is gymnopedia?

Answer 21

Dance performed nude based on wrestling and boxing

Question 22

What is a symposium?

Answer 22

Fancy dinner party

Question 23

How were children trained to dance?

Answer 23

Different for boys and girl. Girls had dancing mistresses

Question 24

What did the Greeks value?

Answer 24

• Affirmation of life
• Acrete (Excellence; living up to ones potential)
• Humanim
• Balance , harmony, and proportion
• Dionysian and Apollonian elements in art

Question 25

Describe Plato’s classifications of dance

Answer 25

Noble and Ignoble