This character suggests her sister will be a “coward” if she refuses to bury Polynices.
Who is Antigone?
100
This character says, “I murdered you, my son, against my will–you too, my wife.”
Who is Creon?
100
This is the type of snake Creon compares Ismene to.
What is a viper?
100
He is Antigone’s fiancee.
Who is Haemon?
100
The Greek city-state where Antigone is set.
What is Thebes?
200
This character calls her sister “wild, irrational.”
Who is Ismene?
200
This character says, “I shackled her, I’ll set her free myself.”
Who is Haemon?
200
This character attacked Thebes with a foreign army.
Who is Polynieces?
200
He is a blind prophet who gives advice to Creon.
Who is Tiresias?
200
The foreign land where Polynices gathers his army.
What is Athens?
300
He says, “It’s pure joy to escape the worst yourself… [other people’s suffering] means less to me than my own skin.”
Who is Creon?
300
This character says, “You’ve robbed the gods below the earth, keeping a dead body here in the bright air.”
Who is Tiresias?
300
The mythical creature Thebes is compared to in the Parados.
What is a Dragon?
300
He is an old Theban citizen who says to Creon, “Only a fool could be in love with death.”
Who is the Chorus Leader?
300
Creon accuses Tiresias of being bribed in gold from this country.
What is Troy?
400
This character insists, “It’s no city at all, owned by one man alone.”
Who is Tiresias?
400
This character says, “Numberless wonders, terrible wonders walk the world, but none the match for man.”
What is the Chorus?
400
Like Antigone, this character from Greek mythology is “buried within her tomb, her bridal-chamber”
Who is Jocasta?
400
She is Eteocles’s and his siblings’ mother.
Who is Jocasta?
400
The chorus describes Zeus and the other gods in "dazzling crystal mansions" atop this mountain.
What is Mt. Olympus?
500
This character says, “These arrows for your heart! Since you’ve raked me I loose them like an archer in my anger, arrows deadly true.”
Who is Tiresias?
500
This character says, “I was just loosing the bolts, opening the doors, when a voice filled with sorrow, family sorrow, struck my ears, and I fell back, terrified, into the women’s arms.”
Who is Haemon?
500
This god is called “Lord of the famous lands of evening”
Who is Hades?
500
He is Menoeceus’s son.
Who is Patrocles?
500
The chorus pleads with Dionysus to race down the slopes of this mountain.