Antigone:
**know quotes (speaker and significance) and order of events as well**
1.
Why is the play’s ending ironic?
2.
What happened to Creon from Oedipus to Antigone ?
3.
Who is Haemon’s fiancé?
4.
How does Creon view women?
5.
What is Creon’s response to Tiersias?
6.
According to Tiersias, what does Creon bring to the city?
7.
Why have the birds stopped making signs?
8.
What is Creon’s warning to the Chorus?
9.
Why does Ismene refuse to bury Polynices?
10.
What is Antigone’s response?
11.
How are Niobe and Antigone similar?
12.
How is Danae like Antigone? How are they different?
13.
The Chorus has lived through the rule of…
14.
How does Antigone bury the body?
15.
How does Antigone view death?
16.
Why does Ismene want to die?
17.
When Haemon rushes offstage, what does the Chorus fear?
18.
Why does the Chorus think Antigone’s life is in ruins?
19.
What happens to Haemon?
20.
What happens to Eurydice? What are her last words?
21.
What is Tiersias’ prophecy?
22.
When Eurydice leaves the stage, what does it foreshadow?
Greek Theatre:
1.
Why is Dionysus always mentioned in the choral odes?
2.
What did masks show?
3.
What are the functions of the chorus?
4.
How long is the time period of a play, and how many times does the scene change?
5.
What does a messenger do?
6.
What is deus ex machina?

7.
Which dramatist added painted scenery?
8.
What does thymele mean?
9.
How many actors were on stage at a time during Sophocles’ plays?
10.
What does skene mean?
11.
What are the limitations of the theater?
12.
Who was the father of drama?
13.
Which dramatist added a second actor?
14.
What does theatron mean?
15.
What does orchestra mean? (old meaning, not current meaning)
16.
What are hypocrites?
Oedipus Rex:
1.
What is Oedipus’ fatal flaw?
2.
Explain how kingship works in Thebes.
3.
What was the oracle’s prophecy about Laius and Jocasta’s baby?
4.
What happened as a result?
5.
Who survived the attack on Laius?
6.
Who is blamed for Laius’ murder? Who actually did it?
7.
What is the problem at the beginning of the play?
8.
What did Oedipus accuse Tiresias of?
9.
Who went to Delphi? What was the answer from Delphi?
10.
Where was Oedipus prince? What is his true backstory?
11.
What will happen if the murderer does not confess?
12.
What does Oedipus want to do to Creon?
13.
What is the accepted story about Creon’s murder in town?
14.
What happens to Jocasta?
15.
What does Oedipus use to blind himself?
16.
What is Oedipus’ final request to Creon?
17.
What is Oedipus’ curse that he announces, and who is he actually cursing?
General:
1.
When does Sophocles use foreshadowing? (and why)
2.
When does Sophocles use irony? (and why)