Theatre of Ancient Greece - A form of Performance art where Actors and a Chorus conduct a Tragedy or Comedy - Ceramic Artifact

Item Specifics

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece.
Height: 37 cm - 14,6 inches
Width: 16 cm - 6,3 inches
Length: 12 cm - 4,7 inches
Weight: 1850 g

Ancient Greek theatre was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, was its centre, where the theatre was institutionalised as part of a festival called the Dionysia, which honoured the god Dionysus. Tragedy (late 500 BC), comedy (490 BC), and the satyr play were the three dramatic genres to emerge there. Athens exported the festival to its numerous colonies. Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements.