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Background Information
Greek Theater
Quotations
The Dearly Departed
The Choral Odes
100
The author of Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
100
The time of day that Greek plays were performed.
What is daytime?
100
“Yes, I’ll do my duty to my brother-/ and yours as well if you’re not prepared to./ I won’t be caught betraying him.”
Who is Antigone?
100
This rebel is found hanged
Who is Antigone?
100
The purpose of the first choral ode
What is to provide background information?
200
He was the hero of Thebes and father/brother to Antigone
Who is Oedipus?
200
A group of actors who chanted and sang together and act as one character
What is the chorus?
200
"For me, a man who rules the entire state and does not take the best advice there is… such a man is the very worst of men."
Who is Creon?
200
Stabs himself or herself after failing to kill Creon
Who is Haemon?
200
In the final choral ode, the chorus appeals to this god to assist Thebes
Who is Bacchus?
300
This prophecy leads to the collapse of the House of Cadmus
What is "the son will kill the father and marry the mother"?
300
Worn by actors in a Greek tragedy to amplify their voices and emotions.
What are masks?
300
"How strange and sad when the one who sorts this out gets it all wrong”
Who is the Guard?
300
Kill each other in battle
Who are Eteocles and Polyneices?
300
The second choral ode recounts man's great achievements, but warns against this trait.
What is pride or arrogance?
400
This event occurs right before Antigone and makes Creon the king of Thebes
What is the war between Eteocles and Polyneices?
400
Greek tragedy competitions were a part of a festival to honor this god.
Who is Bacchus?
400
"Like an archer, I shoot these arrows into your heart/ because you have provoked me. I’m angry-/ so my aim is good.”
Who is Tieresias?
400
Kills herself, cursing her husband with her dying breath, after finding out about her son's death.
Who is Eurydice?
400
According to the first choral ode, this god hates an arrogant, boastful tongue.
Who is Zeus?
500
To become the hero of Thebes, Oedipus defeats this mythical creature
What is the Sphinx?
500
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrite?
500
"And if I’m young,/ don’t think about my age- look at what I do”
Who is Haemon?
500
Dies of old age after spending years in exile after gouging out his own eyes.
Who is Oedipus?
500
One of the choral odes is dedicated to this god, who squanders men's wealth and the one whom it possesses goes mad.
Who is Eros?