About The Author
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
Jocasta kills herself in this way.
What is hanging herself?
This is the number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
The King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes.
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
He is the father (and half-brother) of Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices.
Who is Oedipus?
It was the golden age in ancient Greece.
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by a tragedy?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did the actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
At the beginning of the play Antigone, the main character's brothers have done this in their battle for the throne of Thebes.
What is kill each other?
This was Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
A single flaw in character, or hamartia.
What brought a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character.
What was the Chorus?
Both mother and wife to Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
Antigone wants her sister to help do this, but she refuses.
What is bury her brother's body?
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is bury the body of Eteocles but not Polyneices?
This is why Creon orders that Polyneices's body should be left unburied.
What is Polyneices's attack on the city of Thebes and his brother Eteocles?