Greek Theater
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
He wrote a trilogy of plays about a strange family.
Who is Sophocles?
These are the names of Antigone’s two brothers who killed each other in battle.
Who are Eteocles and Polyneices?
King Creon ordered that this brother be buried with full religious honors.
Who is Eteocles?
This part of a Greek play was usually chanted or sung in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must be a person of this type of "stature" or social standing.
What is a noble stature?
The author of Antigone lived for 90 years and wrote during this famous "Age" of Greece.
What is the "Golden Age"?
Who are Jocasta and Oedipus?
Creon ordered that Polyneices be left unburied so that these could feed on his body.
What are birds and animals?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
Aristotle said a tragedy should trigger these two specific NEGATIVE emotions in the audience.
Pity and Fear
Although he wrote over 100 plays, this is the total number of his plays that still exist today.
What is 7?
This man, Antigone’s uncle, became the new King of Thebes after the brothers died.
Who is Creon?
According to Greek belief, if a body was not buried, this would happen to the person's soul.
What is it could never rest?
To make themselves look taller and more important on stage, Greek actors wore these.
What are platform shoes?
This term describes the "cleansing" or emotional release the audience feels at the end of a sad play.
What is Catharsis?
Sophocles made theater more interesting by adding this many actors to the stage at once.
What is 3?
Creon’s son, Haemon, has this romantic relationship with Antigone.
What is her fiancé (What is engagement/engaged)?
This character is ordered to stand and watch Polyneices' body so that no one will bury it.
Who is The Guard?
This group of actors moved together, spoke in unison, and acted as one single character during the play.
What is the Chorus?
Before their final destruction, a tragic hero must gain this, a moment of redemption, where they finally understand their mistakes.
What is self-knowledge, or understanding?
The age Sophocles was when he won his first award for his plays.
What is 28?
This character is the blind prophet who tries to warn the royal family about their future.
Who is Teiresias?
This characters actions prior to the start of the play, brought a curse on to Antigone's family.
Who is Oedipus?