It's a Tragedy
Antigone & Family
About the Author
Greek Theater
Sphinx Riddles
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
What is the Greek civilization?
100
Antigone's father's name
What is Oedipus?
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
100
The people who wore masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes
What are the actors in a Greek play?
100
Always wax, yet always wane: I melt, succumbéd to the flame. Lighting darkness, with fate unblest, I soon devolve to shapeless mess.
What is a candle?
200
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
200
Relationship of the original King and Queen of Thebes to Oedipus
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
200
This is the number of Sophocles’s plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character
What is the chorus?
200
To you, rude would I never be, Though I flag my tongue for all to see.
What is a dog?
300
A character that has a fatal flaw, or hamartia
What is a tragic hero?
300
“Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother.”
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
300
The "Golden Age" in ancient Greece.
What is the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
300
This city where tragedies were presented as part of a religious festival/competition
What is Athens?
300
I do not breathe, but I run and jump. I do not eat, but I swim and stretch. I do not drink, but I sleep and stand. I do not think, but I grow and play. I do not see, but you see me every day.
What is a leg?
400
Took place offstage and was communicated through messengers to the audience
What are acts of violence?
400
Creon's decree about Eteocles and Polyneices that begins the action of the play
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
400
This was Sophocles’s age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
This is the timeline of the actions within a Greek play
What is one day?
400
Large as a mountain, small as a pea, Endlessly swimming in a waterless sea.
What is an asteroid?
500
This god was celebrated through Greek theater
Who is Dionysus (Bacchus)?
500
This sister does not bury her brother
Who is Ismene?
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
500
The Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites?
500
With potent, flowery words speak I, Of something common, vulgar, dry; I weave webs of pedantic prose, In effort to befuddle those, Who think I wile time away, In lofty things, above all day The common kind that linger where Monadic beings live and fare; Practical I may not be, But life, it seems, is full of me!
What is a riddle?
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