About The Author
It's A Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and Her Family
Olympic Gods and Godesses
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
What is sophocles
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
What is the Greeks
100
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival
What is Athens
100
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
What is Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus
100
The god of thunder and king of the Olympians
What is Zeus
200
This is the number of Sophocles’s plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7
200
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death
What is tragedy
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison
What is choral odes
200
The King and Queen of Thebes
What is King Laius and Queen Jocasta
200
The god of wine; celebrated in the springtime with festivals involving theater
What is Dionysus
300
It was the golden age in ancient Greece.
What is 500 BC- 350 BC
300
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
What is Aristotle's Poetics
300
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes
What hypokrites wore?
300
“Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother.”
What is Oedipus Rex
300
The god of the dead; lives in the underworld
What is Hades
400
This was Sophocles’s age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28
400
A single flaw in character, or hamartia
What is tragic hero
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character
What is the chorus
400
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
What is Queen Jocasta
400
The goddess of marriage; wife of the king of the Olympians
What is Hera
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 2-3
500
Horrible truth that leads to release
What is catharsis
500
The Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites
500
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play
What is The king decides to bury one brother not the other
500
The goddess of love and beauty
What is Aphrodite
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