About the Author
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Sophocles
This civilization made tragedy into an art
Who were the Greeks?
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
This emotion is what Antigone was experiencing in lines 1-13.
Anguish
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
Only 7 remain
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
The King and Queen of Thebes
Jocasta and Oedipus?
"Can you help bury our brother?" was the question of a very vocal heroine
Who is Antigone?
He called this the Golden Age in Ancient Greece
This is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays.
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother"
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
Women should obey the commands of men in power was the reasoning of this compliant sister.
Who is Isemene?
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition
What is 28?
A single flaw in character or hamartia
What brought a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
A group of actors that moved and song together, acting as one character
What as the chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Who was Jocasta?
These two sister primarily disagreed about the laws they should obey.
Who is Antigone and Isemene?
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays
What is 3?
Horrible truth that leads to release
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites?
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play
What is "bury Eteocies but not Polyneices"?
Disgrace