Antigone
This ancient Greek playwright wrote Antigone as part of a trilogy.
Who is Sophocles?
The Kritios Boy is considered the first statue in Western art to utilize this naturalistic standing pose.
What is contrapposto?
This is the city in which the Parthenon is located.
What is Athens?
The reforms of this statesman around 594 BCE are considered the first step toward democracy, including abolishing debt slavery.
Who is Solon?
As the god of the sun, music, and prophecy, his sanctuary was at Delphi.
Who is Apollo?
The loyal sister who refuses to help Antigone bury their brother.
Who is Ismene?
This once-prevalent feature on the faces of earlier Kouros statues is notably absent on the Kritios Boy.
What is the Archaic Smile?
This high, fortified hill in Athens is where the Parthenon is situated.
What is the Acropolis?
The quorum, or minimum number of citizens required for a vote on ostracism, was this number.
What is 6,000?
His Twelve Labors included slaying the Nemean Lion and cleaning the Augean Stables.
Who is Herakles (or Hercules)?
He is the blind prophet whose warnings Creon initially ignores.
Who is Tiresias?
This famous Paris museum has housed the Winged Nike since the late 19th century.
What is the Louvre Museum?
This optical refinement, the slight bulging of the columns, makes them look straight from a distance.
What is entasis?
This was the name for the council of 500 citizens chosen by lot to prepare the agenda for the Assembly.
What is the Boule?
This king of Ithaca spent ten years wandering the seas trying to return home after the Trojan War.
Who is Odysseus?
The main conflict in the play is between this, represented by Antigone, and state law.
What is divine law (or religious duty)?
The Nike of [Redacted] was discovered in 1863 in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on this Aegean island.
What is Samothrace?
The inner Ionic frieze primarily depicted this event, a procession in honor of Athena.
What is the Panathenaic Procession?
This unique Athenian practice involved citizens writing a name on a broken piece of pottery to exile a powerful individual for ten years.
What is ostracism?
They were beautiful but dangerous winged creatures whose irresistible song lured sailors to their doom.
Who are the Sirens?
Who is told, "The only crime is pride," by the blind prophet?
Who is Creon?
Harmodius and Aristogeiton were typically depicted as standing nude and idealized figures of this class of citizen.
What are athletes (or warriors)?
For about 200 years, beginning in the 15th century, the Parthenon served as a mosque under the rule of this empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This Greek word means "power of the people."
What is demokratia?
This creature, with the head of a bull and the body of a man, lived in the Labyrinth on Crete.
What is the Minotaur?