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Greek theatre history
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The protagonist of the play.
Who is Antigone?
100
Eteocles and the army of Thebes pushed away the Argive army.
What is repulsed?
100
The leader of the chorus.
Who is the Choragos?
100
This person hesitated on his way to tell the king the news.
Who is the sentry?
100
"breathless with speed I com, plying a nimble foot"
Who is the sentry?
200
This character accused the sentry of burying Polyneices.
Who is Creon?
200
Tantalos was always this. Please give him a crumb of bread.
What is famished
200
Four playwrights stood out.
Who are Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes?
200
The chorus provides information about this in the prologue of the play.
What is the battle between the brothers.
200
""Sirs for the ship of state -- the Gods once more, After much rocking on a stormy surge,..."
Who is Creon?
300
This character refuses to help Antigone bury Polyneices.
Who is Ismene?
300
Arrogance is likely to make a person do this...
What is look down on others?
300
He was the sole comic writer.
Who is Aristophanes?
300
Ismene reacts to Antigone's arrest by
What is admitting her own guilt and offers to share her sister's punishment.
300
"We traverse the behest or power of the kings."
Who is Ismene?
400
Plucked out his own eyes with golden brooches.
Who is Oedipus?
400
It "took itself hence."
What is went away?
400
This person has a tragic flaw.
Who is the tragic hero?
400
Scene 1 begins with Creon addressing the
What is chorus?
400
"I shall detest you soon:..."
Who is Antigone?
500
He roused the Argive army to fight against Thebes.
Who is Polyneices?
500
A pious person is most likely to
What is pray daily?
500
This is the place where they stored props and changed clothes.
What is the skene?
500
Ismene is shocked by the idea that Creon would condemn the woman who was to marry his son. Creon reacts to her shock by
What is laughing it off and saying there were other women for him to marry.
500
"Poor wretch, why go, to meet they sentence?"
Who is the sentry?