About the Author
The author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colunus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
The location Greek theaters were built.
What is a hillside?
The civilization that made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
Who is Oedipus?
The name of the play we will begin reading tomorrow.
What is Antigone?
The number of actors Sophocles had in his plays.
What is 3?
Where the theatergoers and actors enter the theater.
What is the parados?
Who are women?
The traveller that Oedipus killed.
Who is King Laos, Oedipus's father.
The opening part of a Greek drama.
What is the prologue?
The number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
The amount of people an average Greek theater would seat.
What is 20,000?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrite?
This is the self-inflicted punshiment Oedipus gave himself when he learned he married his mother.
What is gouged out his eyes (and exiled himself)?
A trait of excessive pride.
Sophocles age when he died.
What is 90?
This is where most people would sit during the performance.
What is the Theatron/Koilon?
The God for whom the theater festival honored.
Who is Dionysus?
These people were granted power upon Oedipus's exile.
Who are his sons, Eteocles and Polynieces?
A type of crane used for suspending figures who portrayed gods.
What is deus ex machina?
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the golden age?
This is where the chorus would perform.
The city where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festivel.
What is Athens?
The King of Thebes after Eteocles and Polynieces die in battle.
Who is Creon, Antigone's uncle?
A flaw in a character.
What is hamartia?