Greek Theatre
This is the round area where the actors perform.
What is the Orchestra?
Excessive pride.
What is hubris?
Oedipus's adoptive parents.
Who are the King and Queen of Corinth?
The event that starts the present action.
What is the inciting incident?
Sophocles mostly wrote this type of Greek play.
What is a tragedy?
This character is played by a group of people who respond to the action in the play as the audience does.
What is the Chorus?
The Greek term for a tragic flaw.
What is hamartia?
The geographical location of Oedipus Rex.
What is Thebes?
This is everything that happens before the play.
What is the previous action?
Sophocles became famous by doing this.
What is winning dramatic competitions?
The location of the largest celebrations and competitions for Greek Theatre.
What is the City of Dionysus
The audience knows something important that the characters in the play do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
Where Oedipus receives the prophecy.
What is the Oracle at Delphi?
The definition of "given circumstances"
What is the material needed to understand the special world of the play?
The major difference between the life of Sophocles and the lives of his characters.
What is his status and comfortable life?
The Greek philosophy of life revolved around this.
What is the concern for humanity?
The tragic hero's recognition of their unfortunate situation.
What is anagnorisis?
Oedipus views his subjects as this.
What are his children?
The three environmental factors of a Greek play's given circumstances.
What are location, economic/political environment and religious/social environment?
Sophocles believed anything was possible through these two things.
What are human effort and reason?
Sophocles revolutionized theatre by doing this.
What is introducing a third character?
The feeling the audience gets at the end of a tragedy, which is one of relief, pity and fear.
What is catharsis?
The year Oedipus Rex takes place.
When is 442 BC.
The moments in the script when relationships between characters change.
What are events?
The number of plays Sophocles wrote.
What is 123?