About the Author
The author of Oedipus Res, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
Civilization that made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
City 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 Colonus?
What is the name of the main character/narrator?
The number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
Downfall, usually by death or destruction.
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 and Queen of Thebes.
What are the parents of Oedipus?
The name of the simulated world
What is the Golden Age?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy? How are tragedies suppose to make you feel?
Marks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
"Your son will will kill his father and marry his own mother"
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
Anorak
Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
A single flaw in a character, or hamartia.
What brings a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
Who is Jocasta?
The book that was Halliday's diary and helped gunters in their hunt for the eggs
What is Anorak's Almanac?
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is hypokrites?
"Bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"
What is the decree of Creon that begins that action of the play?
The year that the book takes place.
When is 2045?