Greek Theatre & Dionysia

What evidence is there for Greek Theatre?

• Ancient theatres found all over Greece; some theatres could seat 17,000 Athenians!
• Plays have been depicted on vases
• There are several surviving plays from Ancient Greece(Oedipus, The Bacchae, Frogs, Medea, Antigone to name a few)

Dionysia

• Athens held the festival of Dionysia for the Greek god Dionysus during spring because this is when the seas were most manageable, so that people from…