About the Author
The author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
The status of a tragic hero.
What is noble?
The city where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
Antigone's father and mother.
Who are Jocasta and Oedipus?
In Greek, pronounced as k, but not spelled the same.
What is ch?
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that survived out of the 100+ that he wrote.
What is 7?
The downfall that ends with destruction or death.
What is a tragic hero's ending?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted or sung in unision.
What is the Choral Ode?
The King and Queen of Thebes before Oedipus is rewarded the throne.
Who are Laius and Jocasta?
Both are pronounced as e.
What are ae and oe?
The names of 2 Marvel characters that are the same as 2 of Sophocles' plays.
Who are Ajax and Electra?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions evoked by tragedies?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
The siblings of Antigone.
Who are Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices?
The part that you accent if a name has 2 syllables.
What is the first syllable?
The number of actors that Sophocles had cast in his plays.
What is 3?
A single flaw in a character, aka hamartia
What brings a hero to disaster in Greek tragedies?
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character.
What was the Chorus?
Antigone's cousin and betrothed.
Who is Haemon?
The part that you accent if a name has 3 or more syllables.
What is the second-to-last syllable?
The other 2 great tragic playwrights from Greece, other than Sophocles.
Who are Aeschylus and Euripides?
The horrible truth that leads to an emotional release.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
Creon's command that begins the rising action in the play.
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
The correct pronunciation of "Thucydides".
Who is thoo-SIH-duh-deez?