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About the Author
It's a Tragedy
Greek Theater
Antigone and Her Family
Olympian God and Goddesses
100
He was the author of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
Who was Sophocles?
100
This civilization made tragedy into an art.
Who were the Greeks?
100
This city where tragedies were presented as part of a religious festival/competition
What is Athens?
100
The other two plays in the series with Antigone
What are Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus?
100
The number of Olympian gods and goddesses
What is 12?
200
This is the number of Sophocles’s plays that exist today out of a total of more than 100.
What is 7?
200
Downfall, usually ending with destruction or death
What is the ending for the hero in a Greek tragedy?
200
The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison
What is the Choral Ode?
200
Relationship of the original King and Queen of Thebes to Oedipus
Who were the parents of Oedipus?
200
King of the Olympic gods and goddesses
Who is Zeus?
300
The "Golden Age" in ancient Greece.
What is the time period when Sophocles wrote his plays?
300
Pity and fear, wonder and awe
What are the emotions aroused by tragedy?
300
The people who wore masks with built-in megaphones and platform shoes
Who are actors in a Greek tragedy?
300
“Your son will kill his father and marry his own mother.”
What is the prophecy given to the king and queen of Thebes?
300
The goddess of marriage; Zeus's wife
Who is Hera?
400
This was Sophocles’s age when he won his first drama competition.
What is 28?
400
A character that has a fatal flaw, or hamartia
What is a tragic hero?
400
A group of actors that move and sing together, acting as one character
What is the Chorus?
400
Both mother and wife of Oedipus
Who was Jocasta?
400
The god of the dead; lives in the underworld
Who is Hades?
500
This was the number of actors Sophocles had in the cast of his plays.
What is 3?
500
A word that describes the process of learning a horrible truth that leads to emotional/spiritual release
What is catharsis?
500
The Greek word for actor
What is hypokrites?
500
Creon's decree about Eteocles and Polyneices that begins the action of the play
What is "bury Eteocles but not Polyneices"?
500
The son of Zeus and Semele (a mortal)
Who is Dionysus?