1. Puzzle… Solve this:
What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?

2. Oedipus the king
We will read “The Myth of Oedipus” (10-12 World Drama book) as a class, and fill out the accompanying handout.
We will then use this to complete a story board of events.
(Directions for the story board will come later…)

3. Introduction
Read pages 7-8 in your “World Drama” book, and take notes on the first page of your handout.
When finished, please wait for us to continue to the next activity.

4. Introduction to Antigone
Basics of drama (setting and conflict)
Organization of the drama
Literary Terms to look for

5. Basics of Antigone
Setting: the city of Thebes, the morning after a war, way back in B.C.
Conflict of story:
Individual rights VS. State
Moral or Divine Law VS. Human Law

6. Major Characters in Antigone
Antigone – protagonist, daughter of Oedipus
Creon – King of Thebes and Antigone’s uncle
Ismene – Antigone’s sister
Haemon – Creon’s son and Antigone’s fiancé

7. Chorus Choragos
“the elders of the city Thebes” whose age and opinion would have been respected
Part of cast who chant parados, odes and paean.
Leader of the chorus
Often times interacts with characters one on one

8. The Organization of Antigone
Prologue (story)
Parados (song)
Episode One (story)
Ode One (song)
Strophe
Antistrophe
Episode Two (story)
Ode Two (song)
Episode Three (story)
Ode Three (song)
Strophe
Antistrophe
Episode Four (story)
Ode Four (song)
Episode Five (story)
Paean (song)
Exodus (story)

9. Prologue Parados
Going to be set around central moral issue and set up basic conflict
Sets forth the subject and provides the mythological background necessary for understanding the events of the play.
Our prologue stars our protagonist Antigone and her sister Ismene
Song sung by the chorus as it first enters. Named for the corridors at the front of the stage of a Greek theater
Written in “ode” fashion.
A choral song chanted by the chorus
After the prologue

10. Episodes
A narrative section of the play, when the main events take place
Divided from the next episode by a odes, or stasimons.

11. Ode (Stasimon) a choral section of the play.
The language of these sections is elevated, more “poetic”; often supplementary information or the mood of the play’s internal audience is revealed
A choral ode that often reflects on the dialogue and events of the preceding episode.

12. Parts of the Ode: Strophe: Antistrophe:
Part of ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across stage
Part of ode that chorus chants as it moves back across stage from left to right

13. Paean Exodus
Hymn in praise of god – in this case Dionysus, in whose honor the Greeks performed the plays
The final, or exit, scene

14. Literary Terms to Look For
Foil – a character who serves as a contrast to another character
Allusion – Reference to a statement, person, place, event or thing that is known from something else

15. More Literary Terms
Metaphor –a comparison between two unlike things without a connecting word such as like, as, than or resembles
Simile – a comparison between two unlike things WITH a connecting word such as like, as, than or resembles

16. More Literary Terms
Verbal Irony – when a speaker says one thing, but means the opposite
Dramatic Irony – when the reader or the audience knows something important that a character does not know.

17. More Literary Terms
Alliteration – repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together
Example: “Sally sold seashells down by the sea shore"
Theme – the central idea of a work