About the author
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who are 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 and Oedipus at Colonus?
This is the number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is seven?
Who has a downfall, usually ending with destruction or death?
What is a tragic hero?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison?
What is the chorus?
The King and Queen of Thebes?
Who are King Laius and Queen Jocasta?
These were also great tragic playwrights in Greek tragedy
Who are Aeschylus and Euripides?
Tragedy arouses the emotions of pity and fear, what and what?
What are wonder and awe?
Greek actors wore what on stage to assist with the audience seeing and hearing them?
What are masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes?
"You will kill your father and marry your own mother"
Who is Oedipus?
What is 28.
This was the number of scene changes in Greek drama
What is none.
Who are Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices?
This was the number of actors that Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is three?
This is horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
This is the Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites?
Who are the king and queen of Corinth?