Theatre Space
The name of the performance space. The chorus performs here.
What is orkhestra?
Name of the first actor.
Who is Thespis?
What is ode?
The name of Antigone's Sister.
Who is Ismene?
The name of the seating space. Where the audience sits.
What is Theatron?
Name of playwright that introduced the third actor.
Who is Sophocles?
Actors would use these to portray different characters.
What are masks?
The decree that the King gives to the people of Thebes.
That the body of Polyneices not be buried with proper funeral rites.
The name of the giant building behind the playing space. Used as a back drop.
What is Skene?
Name of playwright who introduced the second actor.
Who is Aeschylus?
English for "tragos oides." The sacrifice that occured before theatre performances.
What is "goat song."
The name of the King's son.
Who is Haimon?
What is Proskenion?
Name of the King of Thebes in Antigone?
Who is Kreon?
The name of Greek performances prior to the first plays.
What is dithyramb?
Tiresias warns the King of this if he does not right his wrongs.
That his son will perish if he does not release Antigone and bury Polyneices.
Name of the entrance and exit areas.
What is Parados?
Name of Antigone's father. The former King of Thebes. Who was cursed to kill his father and marry his mother.
Who is Oedipus?
What is the voice of the people? Or citizens?
The name of the brother that Kreon allowed to be buried.
Who is Eteocles?