Characters.
Plot.
Quotes.
Greek Mythology
Greek Theatre History.
100
The play's tragic heroine. She is sallow, withdrawn, and recalcitrant
Who is Antigone?
100
Antigone buries Polyneices, but is caught and brought to Creon.
How does Antigone’s situation gets worse?
100
"Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way!"
Who is Antigone?
100
Goddess of love, desire, and beauty.
Who is Aphrodite?
100
Orchestra
What is a large circular or rectangular area at the center part of the theatre, where the play, dance, religious rites, acting used to take place?
200
Antigone's uncle. He is powerfully built, but a weary
Who is Creon?
200
Creon sentences Antigone to death and locks her away.
How is her fate sealed?
200
"Antigone, I'm so afraid for you!"
Who is Imene?
200
Hera, Metis, Themis, Demeter, Mnemosyne, and Leto
Who are Zues's lovers?
200
Skene
What is a large rectangular building situated behind the orchestra, used as a backstage. Actors could change their costumes and masks?
300
Antigone's sister. She is the good girl of the family.
Who is
300
Antigone arrives in Thebes and finds that her brothers are dead, Polyneices’s dead body is unburied, and there is a royal edict against burying him.
What is the discovery that Antigone made when she came to Thebes?
300
"That is my will. Take care that you do your part.
Who is Creon?
300
Dionysus
Who is the god of wine and fertility?
300
Tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays
What is the types of plays?
400
Antigone's young fiancé and son to Creon.
Who is Haemon?
400
Creon imprisons both Antigone and Ismene as an accomplice, declaring that they shall be executed.
What is the unfairness of the sentencing?
400
"I have been wondering, King: could it be that the gods have done this?"
Who is Choragus?
400
Pan
What is the god flocks and shepherds?
400
Sophocles
Who wrote more than 100 plays of which seven complete tragedies and fragments of 80 or 90 others are preserved?
500
appears as narrator and commentator. They frames the play with a prologue and epilogue.
Who is the Chorus?
500
Anitgone is thus sent outside of Thebes to starve to death in a cave.
What is Antigones punishment?
500
"You talk too much."
Who is Creon?
500
Hebe.
Who is the goddess of youth?
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