About the Author
The author of Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
The civilization that made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
City where tragedies were produced as a part of a religious festival.
What is Athens?
The other two plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
The number of Sophocles's plays that still exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
What character experiences a downfall, usually ending in death or destruction?
What is the tragic hero?
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
The King and Queen of Thebes
Who are the parents of Oedipus?
The nickname of the time period in ancient Greece when Sophocles wrote his plays.
What is the "golden age"?
What is a tragedy?
What did actors in Greek tragedies wear?
Masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes.
"Your son will kill his father and marry his mother."
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
Sophocles's age when he won his first drama competition.
What was 28?
What brings a hero to disaster in a Greek tragedy?
What is hamartia (or a single flaw)?
What is the Chorus?
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character.
Who is Jocasta?
The number of actors Sophocles cast in his plays.
What is 3?
What is catharsis?
A horrible truth that leads to release.
What is hypokrites?
"Bury Eteocles but not Polyneices."
What is the decree of Creon that begins the action of the play?