which statement best exemplifies the attitude of the greeks toward theatre? a. the archon administered an oath to [the judges]; and, in the case of the cyclian chorus, partiality or injustice was punishable by fine.
c. when the day appointed for the trial came on, they united their efforts, and endeavored to gain the prize by a combination of the best-taught actors with the most sumptuously dressed and most diligently exercised chorus.
b. the student who wishes to acquire an adequate notion of the greek theatre must not forget that it was only an improvement upon the mode of representation adopted by thespis, which it resembled in its general features.
d. that the exertions of the choragus and the actors were often as influential with the judges as the beauty of the poem, can not be doubted, when we have so many instances of the ill success of the best dramatists.