Deus Ex Machina
type: Item
label: Deus ex machina @cs
label: Deus Ex Machina / Gudamaskinen @sv
description: Cranes to fly people
description: kranen om mensen te vliegen @nl
description: Kräne, die Menschen fliegen lassen @de
description: Jeřáby, které zvedaly lidi @cs
description: Gru per far volare le persone @it
description: Mecanismos de elevación y “vuelo” de personajes @es
description: Kranar för att flyga personer @sv
Canon story number: 2
Canon story code: B.01
time frame: Antiquity
Canon story topic: Special effects and projection
Field: Props and special effects
Link to internal Canonbase page: Deus_Ex_Machina
Link to internal Canonbase page: Deus_Ex_Machina_NL
Instance of: Canon stories
Canon story description: In the Greek and Roman theatre of antiquity, cranes were used to raise and lower actors onto the stage, often to represent the arrival of the gods – an effect known as deus ex machina, literally ‘god out of the machine’.
Canon story refers to: Vitruvius
Canon story refers to: Theatre of Dionysus [Athens]