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?
The city was where tragedies were produced as a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone?
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
Die in battle fighting for the throne of Thebes.
Who are Eteocles and Polyneices?
This is the number of Sophocles plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
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 an Choral Ode?
The king and queen of Thebes.
Who are the parents of Oedipus?
Becomes the King of Thebes, Antigone's uncle, left to rule Thebes alone.
Who is Creon?
It is 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?
Considered a traitor and left to rot on the field of battle.
Who is Polyneices?
This was Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
What is twenty-eight?
A single flaw in character, also known as 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
Decides to defy the order of Creon and give Polyneices a proper burial.
Who is Antigone?
This is the number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is three?
Horrible truth that leads to release.
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"?
Antigone, Haemon, and Creon's wife meet this fate.
What is death?