Context
Dionysia
Extra Facts
100

The actors that react to the main characters actions. They are characters that help the audience to know how to feel about plot revelation

What is the Chorus?

100

The name of the yearly festival that held theatric performances in Athens.

What is Dionysia

100

This means "Swollen foot"

What is Oedipus?

200

This is what the Oracle told Oedipus' parents at his birth concerning his fate.

What is he will "kill his father and marry his mother?"

200

These are the three types of greek plays.

What are tragedy, comedy, and satyr.

200

This is the number of plays written by Sophocles that has survived until today.

What is 7?

300

The riddle most famously given to Oedipus by the Sphinx

What is "what walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon, and 3 in the evening."

300

These are the names of the king and queen of Corinth and Thebes (List atleast 1 of the 4)

Who are Laius, Jocasta, Merope, and Polybus

300

This is what the Sphinx does when it's riddle is answered incorrectly.

What is omnomnomnomnomnom?
400

This is the reason Oedipus consults the Oracle.

What is to learn who his parents are.

400

This is the number of plays each tragedian playwright wrote for the festival of Dionysus.

What is 4 (3 tragedies and 1 satyr)

400

This is the name of one of the other two tragedies that follow Oedipus Rex

What is Oedipus at Colonus or Antigone