Show:
Greek Theater
It's a Tragedy
About the Author
Antigone and Her Family
The Stage
100
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who are the Greeks?
100
He wrote three Theban Plays.
Who is Sophocles?
100
These are Antigone's parents.
Who are Oedipus and Jocasta?
100
This is where the Chorus enters.
What is the parados?
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted or sung in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
200
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
What is the end of a tragic hero?
200
The number Sophocles' plays that still exist out of over 100.
What is 7
200
The King and Queen of Thebes do this to Oedipus when they hear a prophecy.
What is place him on a hill to die?
200
The audience sits here in a traditional Greek theater.
What is the theatron?
300
Platform shoes and masks with built-in megaphones
What are costumes in Greek tragedy?
300
An error in judgement (hamartia) or flaw in character, usually pride (hubris).
What is the cause of the hero's downfall?
300
This is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
What is the "Golden Age" of Greece?
300
It says: "Your son will kill his father and marry his mother"
What is the Oracle?
300
The Chorus would deliver the Odes from here.
What is the orchestra?
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together acting as one character.
What is the Chorus?
400
This produces pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What is a tragedy?
400
The number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
400
She is both mother and Wife of Oedipus
Who is Jocasta?
400
This wheeled cart was used to reveal interior scenes.
What is the eccyclema?
500
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
500
This feeling of release purifies the emotions.
What is catharsis?
500
Sophocles' was this age when he first won the drama competition.
What is 28?
500
The contest of Creon's decree that begins the action of the play.
What is "Polynices may not be buried"?
500
This device sometimes delivered a god to resolve the conflict of a play.
What is deus ex machina?