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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

The ending for the hero in a Greek Tragedy is called a ...

Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.

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 were named...

Laius and Jocasta

200
Antigone's sister, who wants to obey the king's orders
Who is Ismene?
300

The nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays.



It was the "Golden Age" of ancient Greece.

300

Two emotions aroused by tragedy.

Pity, fear, wonder, awe.

300

Actors in a Greek tragedy wore Masks with built-in 

____________ and _________ shoes.

megaphones, platform


300

What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?

That the son will kill his father and marry his own mother.

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

Word that describes a single flaw in character that brings a hero to disaster in a Greek Tragedy.

Hamartia


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 was that he would 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?