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About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and her family
Grab Bag
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
100
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
100
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus
100
The king of Thebes at the beginning of Antigone
Who is Creon?
200
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek Tragedy?
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
200
The King and Queen of Thebes
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
200
Antigone's sister, who wants to obey the king's orders
Who is Ismene?
300
It was the "Golden Age" of ancient Greece.
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
300
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
300
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
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
Antigone's fiance, and the son of King Creon
Who is Haemon
400
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
A single flaw in character, or hamartia
What brought a hero to disaster in a Greek Tragedy?
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character
What was the Chorus?
400
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Who was Jocasta?
400
Sophocles' age when he died
What is 90?
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
500
Horrible truth that leads to release
What is catharsis
500
The Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites?
500
The decree of Creon that begins the action of Antigone
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
500
The other two great Greek tragic playwrights who wrote during the "Golden Age" of ancient Greece, besides Sophocles
Who were Aeschylus and Euripides?