Although there are few remaining examples of puppets from ancient Greece, historical literature and archaeological findings shows the existence of puppetry. The Greek word translated as "puppet" is "νευρόσπαστος" ("nevrospastos"), which literally means "drawn by strings, string-pulling", from "νεῦρον" ("nevron"), meaning either "sinew, tendon, muscle, string", or "wire", and "σπάω" ("spaō"), meaning "draw, pull". Aristotle referred to pulling strings to control heads, hands and eyes, shoulders and legs. Plato's work also contains references to puppetry. The "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" were presented using puppetry. The roots of European puppetry probably extend back to the Greek plays with puppets played to the "common people" in the 5th century BC. By the 3rd century BC these plays would appear in the Theatre of Dionysus at the Acropolis.