About the Author!
The author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
City where tragedies were produced and preformed as a part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
Civilization that made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
Why is baby Oedipus sent away from his home?
His parents hear that he will kill his father and marry his mother.
The other two plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus on Colonus?
The number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100
What is 7?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
Downfall, usually by destruction or death.
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
What does Oedipus do when his mother/wife hangs herself?
Gouges his eyes out with her jewelry.
The King and Queen of Thebes.
Who are King Laius and Queen Jocasta?
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the golden age?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions caused/aroused by tragedy?
Why does the Sphinx guarding Thebes kill herself?
Oedipus answered her riddle correctly.
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition.
What was 28?
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
What is the Chorus?
A single flaw in a character, or harmartia.
What brings a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
Road rage, or a dispute at a crossroads.
What was the event that caused Oedipus to kill his father?
Who is Jocasta?
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is 3?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
Why does Oedipus leave Corinth and travel back towards Thebes?
He believes that the king+queen of Corinth are his real parents.
"Bury Eteocles but no Polyneices"
What is the law Creon makes that begin the action of the play?