Greek Theater
Gods
Characters
Plot
Miscellaneous
100
The actors wear these to convey character and emotion.
What are masks?
100
The patron god of theater (also wine, fertility, and madness)
Who is Dionysus?
100
The biological parents of Oedipus.
Who are Jocasta and Laius?
100
This causes Laius to abandon his baby son on Mt. Cithaeron.
What is the first oracle?
100
The city where Oedipus was first performed.
What is Athens?
200
Plays were performed during this religious festival.
What is the Festival of Dionysus?
200
The god who spoke through the Delphic oracle.
Who is Apollo?
200
The meaning of Oedipus' name.
What is "Swollen Foot"?
200
This causes Oedipus to leave Corinth.
What is the second oracle (Oedipus will kill his father and sleep with his mother)?
200
This person saves Oedipus as a baby.
Who is the shepherd?
300
All the actors were this gender.
What is male?
300
The elders call on this god to end the plague.
Who is Zeus?
300
The adoptive parents of Oedipus.
Who are Polybus and Merope?
300
The gods punish Thebes with this.
What is a plague?
300
Where Laius was murdered.
What is a crossroads?
400
Sophocles was responsible for this innovation in Greek drama.
What is the third speaker?
400
In one version of the myth, this goddess struck Tiresias blind after he saw her bathing.
Who is Athena?
400
The blind seer who tells Oedipus that he is the murderer of Laius.
Who is Tiresias?
400
Oedipus defeats this monster to save Thebes.
What is the Sphinx?
400
Oedipus uses these to blind himself.
What are Jocasta's pins?
500
The other plays in the Oedipus trilogy.
What are Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus?
500
The god of medicine and healing.
Who is Asclepius?
500
This character urges Oedipus to disregard oracles since they are false.
Who is Jocasta?
500
Oedipus takes this action after learning his true identity.
What is gouging out his own eyes?
500
The theorist behind the "Oedipus Complex"
Who is Sigmund Freud?
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