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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
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*About_________________________________________
The Greek Theater
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*long building – _________________- _____________________________
*circular floor - ___________________________
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*No_____________________________________
The Presentation of the Play
1. ____________________________- exposition
2. ____________________________ - _____________________________
3. _______ dramatic scenes – ____________________________________
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ACTORS
 ________________________________________
 ________________________________________
 ________________________________________
 ________________________________________
CHORUS
 Group of __________________________
 Commented on the action
 During odes, the leader – _________________–
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 Between scenes, they sang and danced – ______________________
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 The chorus is the ideal spectator – ___________________________
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TRAGEDY
 …is a drama
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 The protagonist, __________________________________________
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Tragic hero
 Possess a defect, or __________________________________
~ poor _____________________________________________
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 It contributes to his _____________________
 The hero ___________________________________________
SOPHOCLES
496 – 406 B.C.
 Ancient _________________________________
 Wrote ________________ – only ____________ remain in existence
 Admired for his ___________________________________________
 Also for _________________________________________________
 ________________________________________
 Search for _______________________________________________
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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 ___________________________
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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 ___________________________
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 Lived happily for years and___________________________
 Then a plague befell the city
 Priest claimed the plaque was ________________________
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 Investigation – ____________________________________
 Iocaste_________________________
 Oedipus _______________________
 Iocaste’s brother, _______________, took control of the city
and allowed one of Oedipus’s children, ________,
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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 _______________________________
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Order Restored
 Creon has restored some order to Thebes
 Civil war has just ended
 ____________________ had supported Creon, so
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 ____________________ had rebelled; therefore, Creon
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 ______________________ decides to do something about this