Packet 11: Bonus 16
Plays in this genre often featured an agon, a formal argument often enacted by its protagonist and antagonist. For 10 points each:
[10e] A frowning mask is commonly used to represent what theater genre performed with comedies in ancient Greece?
ANSWER: tragedy [or tragedies; accept tragic plays]
[10m] Tragedy is often traced to a festival hosted by Pisistratus to honor this deity. This deity is arrested by Pentheus and later has several of his female followers rip him apart in a play by Euripides.
ANSWER: Dionysus [or Bacchus; prompt on The Bacchae]
[10h] In this other play, Dionysus humorously declares Euripides’ tragedies like The Bacchae inferior to Aeschylus. Dionysus has an agon with this play’s chorus shortly after Xanthias is not allowed on Charon’s boat.
ANSWER: The Frogs [or Bátrakhoi] (By Aristophanes.)
<Mixed/Other Literature — Ganon Evans> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |