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Greek Gods & Playwrights
Characters from Greek Plays
Greek Plays & The Plots
Comedy & Tragedy
Grab Bag
100
He was the Greek God of the underworld.
Who is Hades?
100
The was the tragic hero in the Greek tragedy Antigone.
Who is Creon?
100
What were Antigone and Ismene trying to do in the Greek tragedy Antigone that got them in trouble with the King of Thebes?
What is bury thier dead brother?
100
One Characteristic of a comedy is that they usually end this way.
What is happily?
100
The modern day word for actor comes from the Greek word meaning this.
What is to lead?
200
He was the God of wine and fertility.
Who is Dionysus?
200
She died because she tried to give her brother a proper burial in the play that has her name for a title.
Who is Antigone?
200
Dioynsus and Xanthias has trouble crossing the River Styx because of these.
What is a ton of frogs?
200
One characteristic of a classical Greek tragedy is that they usually end this way.
What is in violence, bloodshed and/or death.
200
Actors in traditional Greek theatre were always this.
What are men?
300
This Greek dramatist came up with the idea of individual actors playing individual roles in plays.
Who is Thespis?
300
He was going to marry Antigone and was the son of Creon in the Greek tragedy Antigone.
Who is Haemon?
300
This is where Dionysus and Xanthias were trying to travel to in the Greek comedy The Frogs.
What is the underworld?
300
Classical comedy usually ends with this type of celebration.
What is a marriage?
300
The modern day word for tragedy comes from the ancient Greek word meaning this.
What is goat?
400
This Greek playwright wrote 125 plays including Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
400
He was the sidekick of Dionysus in the Greek comedy The Frogs.
Who is Xanthias?
400
This is why the two brothers were fighting in the beginning of the Greek tragedy Antigone.
What is because they both wanted to be king?
400
This main character in a Greek tragedy usually has a flaw in his personality that leads to his own distruction.
What is a tragic hero?
400
Greek theatre thrived between these years.
What is 500 BC and 500 AD?
500
This Greek playwright wrote 40 plays including Frogs.
Who is Aristophanes?
500
He gave Dionysus and Xanthias directions to the underworld in the Greek comedy The Frogs.
Who is Hercules?
500
Name three of the five characters that died in the Greek tragedy Antigone.
Who are Polynices, Etocles, Antigone, Haemon and the King's wife?
500
Classical tragedies usually focus on this type of character.
What are noble or high ranking characters?
500
Serioius actors call themselves this after the famous Greek playwright.
What are thespians?