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About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and Her Family
Miscellaneous
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
What is the Greeks?
100
This city was where tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival?
What is Athens?
100
The other two plays in the series with Antigone.
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
100
The name of the famous ancient theater in Athens, Greece.
What is Dionysus Theater?
200
This is the number of Sophocles' plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
Typical ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy.
What is downfall usually ending with destruction or death?
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison.
What is the Choral Ode?
200
The King and Queen of Thebes were the parents of this person.
Who was Oedipus?
200
Greek God, the patron of theater.
Who is Dionysus?
300
It was the "Golden Age" in Ancient Greece.
What is the nickname of the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
300
Name at least two emotions aroused by tragedy.
What are pity and fear, wonder and awe?
300
Platform shoes and masks with built-in megaphones were worn by these people.
Who are actors in a Greek tragedy?
300
"Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother."
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
300
This is what the leading actor in Ancient Greek play was known as.
What is the protagonist?
400
This was Sophocles' age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
A single flaw in character that brings a hero to disaster in a Greek play.
What is hamartia?
400
A group of actors that moved and sang together, acting as one character?
What was the Chorus?
400
Both mother and wife of Oedipus.
Who was Jocasta?
400
She was Antigone's sister.
Who was Ismene?
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
500
Horrible truth that leads to release.
What is catharsis?
500
The Greek word for actor.
What is hypocrite?
500
The decree of Creon that begins the action of the play.
What is to bury Eteocles but not Polyneices?
500
Sophocles was born in this year.
What is 496 BC?