About the Author
The author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
The people that made tragedy into an art.
Who are the Greeks?
City where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
The number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of the total of more than 100.
What is 7?
Downfall, usually by destruction or death.
What is the ending of a tragic hero in a Greek tragedy?
The part of the Greek play usually chanted or sung in unision.
What is the Choral Ode?
The king and queen of Thebes.
Who are the parents of Oedipus/King Laius and Queen Jocasta?
The nickname for the period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the Golden Age?
Pity, fear, wonder, and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
Spohocles' age when he won his first drama competition?
A single flaw in a character or hamartia.
What brings a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
What is the Chorus?
The mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Queen Jocasta?
The number of actors Sophocles casts in his plays.
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
What is hypokrites?
"Bury Eteocles but not Polynieces."
What is the decree of Creon that begins the action of the play?