About the Author
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
A speech or written expression of thoughts by a character
What is a monologue?
This is the number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
This is the name for the destruction or death of a hero at the end of a Greek Tragedy.
What is downfall?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison
What is the Choral Ode?
These are the birth parents of Oedipus.
Who are the King and Queen of Thebes/Laius and Jocasta?
A character that has multiple or conflicting motivations
What is a complex character?
This is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the Golden Age?
These are the emotions aroused by tragedy.
What are pity and fear, wonder and awe?
This is what actors in Greek tragedies wore.
What are masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes?
They find the newborn Oedipus, who was abandoned in the mountains.
Who are the king and queen of Corinth?
A minor character whose actions or thoughts are juxtaposed against those of a major character in order to highlight key attributes of the major character
What is a foil?
This was Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
This is the single character flaw that brings about a hero's downfall.
What is hamartia?
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character
What was the Chorus?
This is the mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
A lyric poem expressing feelings or thoughts of a speaker, often celebrating a person, event, or thing
What is an ode?
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites?
Creon decrees that this character not be buried with religious rites and honors.
Who is Polyneices?
In drama, the delivery of dialogue in a rapid, fast-paced manner, with actors speaking emotionally and leaving very little time between speakers
What is stichomythia?