This group of people both narrates and interacts with the characters in the play.
What is the Chorus?
100
Antigone wants Ismene to help her with this task.
What is burying Polynieces?
100
This person says, "And if this hurries me to death before my time, why, such a death is gain."
Who is Antigone?
100
Antigone's ceremonial burial of Polynieces uses this material.
What is dirt/dust?
100
This character is the tragic hero by the end of the play.
Who is Creon?
200
Greek actors wore these items to symbolize characters, to portray emotion from a far distance, and even to project their voices.
What are masks?
200
(Multiple answers are possible; you only need ONE.) This is the reason why Creon might feel threatened by Antigone.
What is Antigone's gender?
What is Antigone's heritage (she's the daughter of the true king)?
200
To whom does Haimon speak these words? “She shall not die—don’t think it—in my sight or by my side. And you shall never see my face again."
Who is Creon?
200
Through these TWO actions, Oedipus brought a curse upon his family.
What is killing his father and marrying his mother? (Gross... that's what it is!)
200
Eteocles kills this character.
Who is Polynieces?
300
The Greeks put on week-long festivals to honor this god.
Who is Dionysus?
300
Ismene does this when she is brought before Creon.
What is try to take some of the blame for the burial of Polynieces?
300
This person tells Antigone, "We are only women, we cannot fight with men!"
Who is Ismene?
300
It's Haimon's final act before he commits suicide.
What is his attempt to kill Creon?
300
Antigone uses this item to hang herself.
What is her (wedding) veil?
400
These people were viewed as inferior and irrational in Greek society.
Who are women?
400
For burying Polynieces, the penalty is death. But under pressure from Tiresias, Creon assigns Antigone this punishment instead.
What is locking Antigone into a vault/tomb?
400
Identify the source of this quote: "There is no happiness...but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, and proud men in old age learn to be wise."
Who is the chorus?
400
This is why Antigone's death is an instance of dramatic irony.
What is the fact that Creon was coming to free Antigone?
400
This is how a character expresses his or her grief at the tragic climax of the play in a Greek tragedy
What is the catharsis?
500
I'm looking here for a Greek word:
In most Greek tragedies, the hero is guilty of this.
What is hubris?
500
It's the family relationship between Antigone and her fiance, Haimon.
What is a cousin? (Ewwww!)
500
This prophet says, "The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh..."
Who is Tiresias?
500
All three of these people commit suicide.
Who are Haimon, Antigone, and Eurydice?
500
This is the reversal that Creon must face.
What is the change from pridefully upholding the law to humbly admitting that he was wrong and giving Polynieces a proper burial?