| A | B |
|---|
| Three | The number of speaking actors onstage at any given time in a Greek Tragedy |
| Dionysia | The festival at which tragedies were performed |
| Dithyramb | The choral perform out of which tragedy emerged |
| Thespis | The actor who began the shift from Dithyramb to Tragedy |
| Peisistratus | The tyrant who introduced the Greater Dionysia |
| Liturgy | The 'good civic deed' through which tragedies were funded |
| The Persians | The first surviving tragedy |
| 406 | Year by which all the three major tragedians are dead |
| Aeschylos, Sophocles, Euripides | The three major tragedians |
| Dionysos | God to whom the festivals where Tragedies were performed was dedicated |
| 472 | Year when first surviving Tragedy debuted |
| Skene | The background and entrance of the stage |
| Choregus | Person in charge of selecting and training chorus-members |
| Satyr Play | A short comic piece performed at the end of each tragic cycle |
| Apotropaic | 'Averting [evil]', used to describe scary theater masks |
| Ekkyklema | Mechanism to wheel out things from behind the skene |
