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About the Author
Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and Fam
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
100
The civilization that made tragedy in an art.
What is Greece?
100
The city where tragedies were produced.
What is Athens?
100
The other 2 plays in the Antigone series.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
200
The total number of Sophocles plays that still exist.
What is 7?
200
Death, usually ending with downfall or destruction.
What is the definition of tragedy?
200
The part of a Greek play that is chanted or sung.
What is the chorus or choral ode?
200
The parents of Oedipus.
Who were Lauis and Jocosta?
300
It was the Golden Age in ancient Greece.
What is the time period in when Sophocles wrote his plays?
300
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions caused by tragedy?
300
Masks with built in megaphones and platform shoes.
What did the actors wear?
300
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
What is the prophecy given to the King of Thebes?
400
Sophocles age when he won his first competition.
What is 28?
400
A single flaw in a character, or hamartia.
What brought the disaster to a hero in a Greek Tragedy?
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character.
What is the Chorus?
400
The mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who was Jocasta?
500
The number of actors in Sophocles play.
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 play Antigone.
What is bury Etocles but no Polyneices?