About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and Her Family
Miscellany
100
He was the author of "Oedipus Rex," "Oedipus at Colonus," and "Antigone."
Who was Sophocles?
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art form.
Who were the Greeks?
100
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
100
The other two plays in the series with "Antigone."
What are "Oedipus Rex" and "Oedipus at Colonus"?
100
This is the city in Greece, near Athens, where Sophocles was from.
What is Colonus?
200
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that exist today, out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
The usual ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy.
What is downfall, usually destruction or death?
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
200
The king and queen of Thebes.
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
200
These are the other two great playwrights of ancient Greece.
Who are Aeschylus and Euripedes?
300
It was the "Golden Age" in ancient Greece.
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
300
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
300
Platform shoes and masks with built-in megaphones.
What did Greek tragedy actors wear?
300
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
300
He wrote "Poetics," which defined tragedy as we know it today.
Who is Aristotle?
400
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
A single flaw in a character that brings the hero of a tragedy to disaster.
What is hamartia?
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character.
Who was the Chorus?
400
She was both the wife and mother of Oedipus.
Who was Jocasta?
400
The single flaw in a tragic hero that brings about his downfall.
What is hamartia?
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
500
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
500
Where the violent action of Greek tragedies took place.
Where is offstage? (Messengers brought the information to the audience.)
500
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is to bury Eteocles but not Polyneices?
500
The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta; Antigone's sister.
Who is Ismene?
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