About Author
He was the author of Antigone
The civilization that made tragedy an art form.
The Greeks
The city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
Athens
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
Oedipus Rex and Oedpius at Colonius
Number of Plays That Exist Today
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
The ending of Greek tragedy
The part of a Greek play usually chanted or song in unison
The choral ode
The King and Queen of Thebes
the parents of Oedipus
"Golden Age" of Ancient Greece
The nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
Greek actors wore these
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
The prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes.
Sophocles age when he won drama competition
28
A single flaw in a character, or hamartia
What brought a hero to disaster
A group of actors that moved and sung together
The Chorus
Both mother and wife to Oedipus
Jocasta
The number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays
Three
Horrible truth that leads to release
Catharsis
The Greek word for actor
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play
Bury Eteocles but not Polyneices