Antigone Family History
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
He is the author of
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at
Colonus, and Antigone.
What is Sophocles?
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
Oedipus does this when he finds the truth.
What is gouge his eyes out with a pin?
The king and queen of Thebes?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Chorus/ Choral Ode?
This is the number of
Sophocles’s plays that
exist today out of a total of
more than 100.
What is seven?
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek Tragedy?
Antigone's brothers.
Who are Eteocles and Polyneices?
“Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother.”
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
This is the golden age in ancient Greece.
What is when Sophocles wrote his plays?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions in a tragedy?
What is RACE?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
What is the Chorus?
This was Sophocles’s age when he won his first drama competition.
What is twenty-eight?
A single flaw in character, also known as hamartia.
What brings a hero to a disaster in a Greek Tragedy?
A man or woman of noble stature.
What is a tragic hero?
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
This is the number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is three?
Horrible truth that leads to a release.
What is catharsis?
Becomes King and is Antigone's father in law/uncle.
Who is Creon?