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About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theatre
Antigone and Family
Vocabulary
100
Author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone
Who is Sophocles?
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
What is Greece?
100
The city where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
100
The other two plays in series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
100
To move or push forward.
What is "advance"?
200
The number of Sophocles's plays that still exist today out of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
Downfall, usually ending in destruction or death.
What is the ending of a tragedy?
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted or sung in unison.
What is a choral ode?
200
The king and queen of Thebes.
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
200
Planned oral reading that expresses the meaning of a written text.
What is oral interpretation?
300
The nickname for the time period in which Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the golden age of ancient Greece?
300
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
300
What actors wore in a Greek tragedy.
What are masks with built in megaphones and/or platform shoes.
300
The prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes.
What is "your son will kill his father and marry his mother"?
300
A character that has multiple or conflicting motivations.
What is a complex character?
400
Sophocles age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
This flaw brings disaster to a tragic hero.
What is a hamartia?
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together as one character.
What is the chorus?
400
Mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who is Jocasta?
400
Standards that can be used to evaluate or judge the success of something.
What are criteria?
500
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
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 Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
500
A brief description of a literary character.
What is a character sketch?