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Name: ___________________________________ Date____________________ English 10: Antigone Topic: Ancient Greek Theatre Ancient Greece – circle Thebes & Athens Modern Day Greece – where would Thebes and Athens be located? Circle it. God of Wine *___________________ – god of wine Athenians _______________________________________________ *______________________________________________ *______________________________________________ *About_________________________________________ The Greek Theater *____________________________________________________________ *____________________________________________________________ *long building – _________________- _____________________________ *circular floor - ___________________________ *____________________________________________________________ *No_____________________________________ The Presentation of the Play 1. ____________________________- exposition 2. ____________________________ - _____________________________ 3. _______ dramatic scenes – ____________________________________ _____________________________________ ACTORS ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ CHORUS Group of __________________________ Commented on the action During odes, the leader – _________________– ________________________________________________________ Between scenes, they sang and danced – ______________________ __________________________________________________________ The chorus is the ideal spectator – ___________________________ __________________________________________________________ TRAGEDY …is a drama ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ The protagonist, __________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Tragic hero Possess a defect, or __________________________________ ~ poor _____________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ It contributes to his _____________________ The hero ___________________________________________ SOPHOCLES 496 – 406 B.C. Ancient _________________________________ Wrote ________________ – only ____________ remain in existence Admired for his ___________________________________________ Also for _________________________________________________ ________________________________________ Search for _______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ THE OEDIPUS MYTH 3 tragedies – royal family of Thebes ~ Oedipus the King ~ Oedipus at Colonus ~ _______________________ A fortune teller saw in the oracle that the infant would _______________________________, Theban king Laios, and _____________________ _______________, Iocaste So, he was to be abandoned on a mountaintop by a servant and made sure of his death But the servant pitied the newborn and gave him to a childless couple – ____________________________ Grew up not knowing who his real father and mother was Travels took him to __________________________ _____________________________ He confronted the ___________________________ ______________________________ The Riddle: “What creature walks on four legs at dawn, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? Oedipus’s answer: The Sphinx leaped into the sea after Oedipus gave the correct answer, and Oedipus was received on the city as a hero. A Royal Marriage Iocaste, widow, agreed to ___________________________ ___________________________________ Lived happily for years and___________________________ Then a plague befell the city Priest claimed the plaque was ________________________ _________________________________________________ Investigation – ____________________________________ Iocaste_________________________ Oedipus _______________________ Iocaste’s brother, _______________, took control of the city and allowed one of Oedipus’s children, ________, _________________________________________________ A Daughter Mourns Antigone, her sister (________________), and brothers (___________________ and __________________________) were burdened by the family background Haunted by the family curse that caused their father to fulfill his own prophecy Brothers agreed to share control but after Eteocles’s term was over, he _____________ to give up control to Polyneices The curse continued when the _______________________________ ________________________________________________________ Order Restored Creon has restored some order to Thebes Civil war has just ended ____________________ had supported Creon, so ________________________________________________________ ____________________ had rebelled; therefore, Creon ________________________________________________________ ______________________ decides to do something about this