About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and Her Family
Olympian God and Goddesses
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
100
This city where tragedies were presented as part of a religious festival/competition
What is Athens?
100
Antigone's father was this man.
Who is Oedipus?
100
The location of the home of the gods
What is Mt. Olympus?
200
This is the number of Sophocles’s plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
The ending for a hero in a Greek tragedy.
What is death or a downfall?
200
The location where Greek plays were performed.
What is an ampthitheater?
200
Relationship of the original King and Queen of Thebes to Oedipus
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
200
King of the Olympic gods and goddesses
Who is Zeus?
300
The number of times Sophocles won first place in the playwriting competitions.
What is 20?
300
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
What are the emotions of a tragedy?
300
During a play, violent action took place here.
What is offstage?
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
The goddess of marriage; Zeus's wife
Who is Hera?
400
This was Sophocles’s age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
A character that has a fatal flaw, or hamartia
What is a tragic hero?
400
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character
What is the Chorus?
400
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Who was Jocasta?
400
The god of the dead; lives in the underworld
Who is Hades?
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
500
A word that describes the process of learning a horrible truth that leads to emotional/spiritual release
What is catharsis?
500
The Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites?
500
Creon decrees that no one is to do this with Polyneices' body.
What is bury it?
500
The god of wine.
Who is Dionysus?
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