Show:
About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone
& her family
Wild Card
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
100
...that we don't use a book like this in every class
What is SpringBoard?
100
We will make masks out of these white pieces of paperboard tomorrow
What are paper plates?
100
The other two plays in the series Antigone
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
100
the date of Emily's Birthday
January 8
200
Correctly spell the author's name
What is S-O-P-H-O-C-L-E-S?
200
This civilization made tragedy into art
Who were the Greeks?
200
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival
What is Athens?
200
The king and queen of Thebes
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
200
People in this room who are on the Yearbook Staff
Who are Bryan, Tommy, and Pat?
300
The number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of 100
What is seven?
300
Downfall, usually ending in destruction or death
What is the ending for a hero in a Greek tragedy?
300
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison
What is the choral ode?
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
Number of people who still have not passed their independent reading in
What is three?
400
It was the Golden Age in ancient Greece
What is the nickname for the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
400
Pity, fear, wonder, and awe
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
400
A group pf actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character
Who was the chorus?
400
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Who is Jocasta?
400
Vocab word that means "to do away with" or "remove"
What is eradicate?
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays
What is three?
500
A single flaw in character or hamartia
What brought a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
500
The Greek word for actor
What is hypocrite?
500
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play
What is bury Etocles but not Polyneices?
500
Something that connects 2 places, put it together and it means to shorten. (lesson 15 vocab word)
What is abridge?