About the Author
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
This civilization made a tragedy into 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 Colonus
The king of Thebes at the beginning of Antigone
Who is Creon?
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek Tragedy?
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
King Liaos and Queen Jocasta
Antigone's sister, who wants to obey the king's orders
Who is Ismene?
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
It was the "Golden Age" of ancient Greece.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
What did actors in a Greek tragedy wear?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes
What is the prophecy given to the king Laius and queen Jocastaosta of Thebes?
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
Antigone's fiance, and the son of King Creon
Who is Haemon
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
What brought a tragic hero to disaster in a Greek Tragedy?
A single flaw, or hamartia
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character
What was the Chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Who was Jocasta?
Sophocles' age when he died
What is 90?
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 Antigone
"bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"
The other two great Greek tragic playwrights who wrote during the "Golden Age" of ancient Greece, besides Sophocles
Who were Aeschylus and Euripides?