Greek Drama
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- Q1This Greek was the first to include actors, apart from the Chorus. His name is a word that means "actor."SophoclesOedipusAeschylusThespis30s
- Q2Greek drama began as part of a festival to this god.AresCupidDionysusZeus30s
- Q3Author of Oedipal cycle playsSophoclesDionysusAeschylusEuripides30s
- Q4A tragic flaw that contributes to the tragic character's downfallgreeddisobediencedeceitfulnesshamartia30s
- Q5Setting for most of the Oedipal cycle playsAthensSpartaThebesPeloponnesus30s
- Q6Most famous Greek comic writerAeshcylusEuripedesSophoclesAristophanes30s
- Q7What is the skene?the area where the audience satthe stage itselfthe setting of the playa storage building behind the stage30s
- Q8What is hubris?a married manembarrassmenthamartiaexcessive pride30s
- Q9What English word meaning "procession" is derived from a part of the Greek amphitheater?theatersceneparadeorchestra30s
- Q10What does "catastrophe" mean in Greek theater?the final resolutiona character's tragic flawa terrible endinga song recited by the chorus30s
- Q11True or False? Sophocles was a tax collector.FalseTrue30s
- Q12Which of Sophocles' Theban plays was written first, but actually comes last in chronological order?AntigoneOedipus at ColonusOedipus Rex30s