About the Author
He is the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
This city was where tragedies were produced as a part of a religious festival.
The other two plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
This is the number of Sophocle's plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100 he created.
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.
It is the golden age of Ancient Greece.
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
Pity and fear, wonder and awe.
What are the emotions created 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 mother."
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition?
What is twenty-eight years old?
A single flaw in a character, also known as a hamartia.
What brings a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
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?
What is three?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polynices?"