About the Author
The author of Oediupus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
Civilization that made tragedy into an art.
What is Greece?
City where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
What is Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
This favorite desert was invented in Ancient Greece. Don't eat if you are lactose intolerant.
What is cheesecake?
The number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
Downfall, usually by destruction or death.
What is tragedy?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What are the choral odes?
The King and Queen of Thebes.
Who are King Laius and Queen Jocasta?
This was what ancient Greece was referred to as in ancient times.
What is Hellas?
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the Golden Age?
What are emotions aroused by tragedy?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What are actors?
Who is Oedipus Rex?
This Greek word, ἰδιώτης, referred to someone who did not take part in politics or public affairs. In English, it is an insult to call someone this.
What is idiot?
What is 15?
A single flaw in a character that leads to their downfall.
What is hamartia?
Group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
What is the chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus.
In ancient Greece, this type of facial hair was fashionable. Frida Kahlo was also popular for this facial hair style.
What is a unibrow?
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypocrite?
"Bury Etecoles but not Polyneices.
Who is Creon?
This was referred to as the first computer, of which the ancient Greeks invented.
What is the Antikythera mechanism?