Greek Theatre
The Oedipus Myth
Characters in Antigone
Antigone: Prologue
Antigone Scenes 1&2
100
The leader of the chorus
What is the choragus?
100
what Oedipus was destined to do to his father
What is kill him?
100
Antigone's uncle and the current King of Thebes
Who is Creon?
100
the prologue opens with which two characters discussing an illegal act
Who are Antigone and Ismene?
100
the person who tells Creon that Polyneices' body has been buried
Who is the sentry?
200
Where Greek theatre performances took place
What is outside? [at a stadium is also acceptable]
200
who Oedipus was destined to marry
What is his mother?
200
the character who most values the laws of the gods over the laws of man
Who is Antigone?
200
the sister who believes that women are not weak
Who is Antigone?
200
what will happen to the sentry if he doesn't find the lawbreaker
What is he will be tortured to find out? [tortured and killed also accepted]
300
what the characters in Greek plays all wear
What is masks?
300
how many children Oedipus had
What is four?
300
the woman who tries to save her sister's life
Who is Ismene?
300
sister who promises to keep the other's secret
Who is Ismene?
300
Creon compares the country to this in his opening speech
What is a ship?
400
what the chorus' song is called
What is an ode?
400
the names of Antigone's brothers who fought to the death
Who are Eteocles and Polyneices?
400
the person who ironically calls the other main character "inflexible"
Who is Creon?
400
sister who believes in the public good
Who is Ismene?
400
the reason Creon is surprised to find that Antigone buried Polyneices
What is she is a woman?
500
which god plays were in celebration of
Who is Dionysus- or the god of wine?
500
what Oedipus did when he found out the truth
What is cut out his own eyes?
500
the character who sings in between scenes
What is the chorus?
500
topic that the chorus and choragus sing about in the parados
What is the final fight of Eteocles and Polyneices?
500
what Antigone is compared to when she returns to find that Polyneices' body has been uncovered
What is a mother bird?
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