About the Author
The author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Sophocles
Civilization that made tragedy into an art
Greeks
City where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival
Athens
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
The number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100
7
Downfall, usually by destruction or death
the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
Choral Ode
The King and Queen of Thebes
The parents of Oedipus
Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition
28
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
The emotions imposed by Tragedy
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes
actors in a Greek tragedy outfits
Quote: “Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother.”
prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays
The Golden Age
A single flaw in character, or hamartia
brings a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character
Chorus
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Jocasta
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays
3
Horrible truth that leads to release
Catharsis
The Greek word for actor
hypokrites
Quote: “Bury Eteocles but not Polyneices.”
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play