About the Author
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonius?
The reason Creon's nephews killed each other.
What is kingship?
This is the number of Sophocles’s plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100
What is 7?
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.
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices.
Who are Antigone's siblings?
It was the golden age in 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 aroused 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 own mother.”
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
Vast outdoor amphitheaters that could seat 40,000 people.
Where were plays performed?
This was Sophocles’s age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
A single flaw in character, or hamartia.
What brought a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character.
What was the Chorus?
Both mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who was Jocasta?
The author of tragedy and tragic hero Poetics.
Who is Aristotle?
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
A release of suppressed emotions leading to a moment of relief.
What is Catharsis?
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypokrites?
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is “bury Eteocles but not Polyneices”?
Sophocles defeated him in a competition.
Who is Aeschylus?