About the Author
The author of Oedipus Rex, 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?
This man was Antigone’s brother, but his name was neither Eteocles nor Polyneices.
Who was Oedipus?"
The number of Sophocles’s plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
Downfall, usually by 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 and Queen of Thebes.
Who are the parents of Oedipus?
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the golden age?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did 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?
Sophocles’s age when he won his first drama competition.
What was 28?
A single flaw in 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.
What is the Chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
“Bury Eteocles but not Polyneices.”
What is the decree of Creon that begins the action of the play?