About the Author
The author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Sophocles
Civilization that made tragedy into an art.
The Greeks
The city where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
Athens
One of other two plays in the series with Antigone.
Oedipus Rex or Oedipus at Colonus
The number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
Seven
Downfall, usually by destruction or death, is the ending for which character in a Greek tragedy?
The (Tragic) Hero
The part of a Greek play usually chanted or sung in unison.
The Choral Ode
The King and Queen of Thebes were the parents of who?
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
The Golden Age
Pity and fear, wonder and awe, are the [blank] aroused by tragedy.
Emotions
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes were worn by who?
Actors
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother" was a [blank] given to the King and Queen of Thebes.
Prophecy
Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition.
Twenty-Eight
The single flaw in character, or hamartia, brings [blank] to a hero in a Greek tragedy.
Disaster
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
The Chorus
Jocasta
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
Three
Horrible truths that lead to release are called [blank] in a Greek tragedy.
Catharsis
The Greek word for actor.
Hypokrites
"Bury Eteocles but not Polyneices" was a decree given by [blank] at the beginning of the play.
Creon