About the Author
Author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Who was Sophocles?
Civilization that made tragedy into an art
Who were the Greeks?
city where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival
What is Athens?
Who is Ismene?
often placed within parenthesis and printed in italics, they tell the actor what to do
What are stage directions?
Number of Sophocles's plays that exist today out of 100
What is 7?
Ending for the Greek hero in a Greek tragedy
What is downfall, destruction, or death?
One will do for an answer
part of a Greek play chanted or sung in unison
What is the Choral Ode?
parents of Oedipus
Who were the king and queen of Thebes?
tone, pitch, inflection, volume, pacing
What are ways to express mood in oral interpretations?
Nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote plays
What is the Golden Age?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
What are emotions aroused by tragedy?
masks with built in megaphones
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?
When the plot moves forward to develop the action of the story and build on the lesson being taught
What is advance or advance the plot?
Age of Sophocles when he won his first drama competition
What is 28?
single flaw in a character; hamartia
What brings a hero to disaster in Greek tragedy?
group of actors that moved ans sang together acting as one character
What was the Chorus?
mother and wife of Oedipus
Who was Jocasta?
a deeper understanding of life, not depression
What does the Greek tragedy leave the viewer with a sense of?
Number of actors Sophocles had cast in his plays
What is 3?
horrible truth that leads to release
What is catharsis?
What is hypokrites?
decree of Creon that begins the action of the play
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
stiffened leather, linen, wood, or cork
What were the Greek masks made of?