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