The Greek Amphitheatre
Athenian Culture
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
100
Identify the Orchestra
A
100
What does the Ancient Greek word agon literally mean?
Debate/conflict
100
What is Aeschylus' surviving trilogy of plays called?
The Oresteia
100
Name either of Oedipus' daughters.
Antigone and Ismene
100
Who beheads Pentheus in The Bacchae?
Agave, his mother
200
Identify the Parodos
C
200
Who stepped out of the chorus to speak alone and is often called the "first actor"?
Thespis
200
What did Aeschylus' job before he was a playwright?
General (Politician also acceptable)
200
What did Sophocles' job before he was a playwright?
General (Politician is also acceptable)
200
What did Euripides' job before he was a playwright?
Actor
300
Identify the Theatron
B
300
Some Historians believe that Greek Tragedies evolved out of choral song parades called what?
Dithyrhambs
300
Aeschylus wrote Promethius Bound. In the ancient myth, why did the gods punish Prometheus?
He stole fire and gave it to humanity.
300
What is Clytemestra's most important reason for killing Agamemnon.
His deceptive sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia.
300
TRUE or FALSE: Euripides mentioned current events and politics less than Aeschylus and Sophocles did.
FALSE
400
Identify the Skene
D
400
TRUE or FALSE: All three surviving Greek Tragedians served in the military.
True.
400
What major feature did Aeschylus add to Greek Tragedy?
A Second Actor
400
What major feature did Aeschylus add to Greek Tragedy?
A Third Actor
400
Euripides wrote a tragedy about a complicated relationship between stepson and stepmom that has been adapted by Jean Racine, Sarah Kane, Charles Mee, and many others. What is it called?
Hippolytus.
500
Where would the deus ex machina appear from?
Behind D (the Skene)
500
According to Dr. Jonathan Shay, Greek Tragedies helped Athenian men cope with what diagnosis?
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
500
Which play by Aeschylus was based on recent historical events, a rarity in Greek tragedy?
The Persians
500
In Sophocles' play Philoctetes, what do Odysseus and Neoptolemus need from the title character?
His bow
500
Euripides wrote the only surving full satyr play. What's it called?
The Cyclops.