All About Sophocles
He is the Author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
This civilization made tragedy into art.
Who were the Greeks?
This city was where tragedies were produced as part a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two play in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that exit today out of a total of more than a 100.
What is seven?
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death.
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
The king and queen of Thebes.
Who are the parents of Oedipus?
It is the golden age in ancient Greece.
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
Pity and far, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
Masks with built-in megaphones and 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?
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first dramatic competition.
What is twenty-eight?
A single flaw in a character, also known as hamartia.
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
What is the Chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus?
Who is Jocasta?
This is the number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is three?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is, "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?