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Greek Terms
Greek Theatre
Characters
Plot
FUN trivia
100
Overbearing pride and presumption
What is hubris
100
What actors wore to convey characters and emotions.
What is masks.
100
Wife of Oedipus, Mother of Oedipus, Antigone and Ismene.
Who is Jocasta.
100
His murder must be avenged to end the plague in Thebes.
Who is Laius.
100
The author of Oedipus.
Who is Sophocles.
200
A purification or purging of emotions achieved while watching tragedy
What is catharsis
200
Traditional Greek Theatre only featured this group of people, until Thesbis added individual actors.
What is The Chorus
200
Head of a woman, body of a lion. Gave the riddle that Oedipus solved.
What is The Sphinx
200
Why Oedipus left Corinth in the first place.
What is to avoid the prophecy of marrying his mother and killing his father.
200
Coined the term "Oedipus Complex."
Who is Sigmund Freud.
300
The 3 classical unities
What is Unity of Time, Unity of Place, Unity of Action
300
God of wine, dancing and illusion; Greek drama was performed in village festivals in honour of him
What is God Dionysus
300
Who delivers the information of Jocasta's suicide and Oedipus' self-inflicted blinding?
Who is the Messenger?
300
What Oedipus uses to stab out his eyes.
What is the brooches from Jocasta's robe. (Ew!)
300
What the name Oedipus means in Greek.
What is 'swollen foot.'
400
A sudden unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances for a character
What is Peripetia
400
The illusion of reality for the audience
What is verisimilitude.
400
Daughters of Oedipus
Who are Antigone and Ismene.
400
Told Oedipus the story of how the oracle had been wrong and should not be trusted.
Who is Jocasta.
400
Oedipus was raised in this country.
What is Corinth.
500
The two divisions of the chorus/choral ode representing two different voices.
What is the Strophe and Antistrophe
500
This many people fit in the Greek amphitheatre.
What is 40,000
500
The adoptive parents of Oedipus.
Who are Polybus and Merope.
500
Where Laius was killed.
At a three-way-cross roads.
500
"You are yourself the murderer you seek." Who said this?
Who is Teiresias.