Believed the laws of the gods superceded (overrode) those of mortals.
Who is Antigone?
100
Polyneices and Eteocles did this before the start of the play.
What is kill each other in battle?
100
The character who says this line, “The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh. . .”
Who is Tiresias?
100
Wrote the play Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
100
Three main rhetorical devices.
What are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
200
Attempted to stab Creon and then fell upon his own sword.
Who is Haemon?
200
Creon does this to Antigone to feel less responsible for her death.
What is locks her in a vault?
200
This character says, “If I am young and right, what does my age matter?”
Who is Haemon?
200
The people who sang/chanted, summed up action after each scene, and said out loud what the audience should be thinking were known as...
What is the Chorus?
200
Antigone's father, Oedipus, is known for:
What is killing his father and marrying his mother?
300
The leader of the chorus.
Who is Choragus?
300
This is Creon's punishment for Antigone's death.
What is his son and wife commit suicide?
300
This character says, “If we must lose, let’s lose to a man, at least. Is a woman stronger than we?”
Who is Creon?
300
The Choragus could do this, which other Chorus members could not do.
What is speak with the actors?
300
The setting of the play.
What is Thebes?
400
Was denied burial because he attacked his own city.
Who is Polyneices?
400
Creon tells Haemon that doing this makes a good son.
What is obey his father no matter what?
400
This character says, “I have been a stranger here in my own land: all my life, the blasphemy of my birth has followed me.”
Who is Antigone?
400
Greek theater was invented during festivals honoring this god.
Who is Dionysus?
400
Creon becomes upset whenever he perceives a challenge to his...
What is authority?
500
Refused to share the throne of Thebes with his brother.
Who is Eteocles?
500
Antigone blames her fate on this.
What is the curse of Oedipus?
500
This character says, “There is no happiness . . . But in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, and proud men in old age learn to be wise.”
Who is Choragus?
500
The downfall of a dignified, superior character is known as...
What is a tragedy?
500
Haemon uses this metaphor to explain to Creon why he should not be so stubborn.