1. Antigone—An Introduction We will cover:  Greek Drama and Tragedy  Sophocles  Oedipus Rex  Terms to know

2. Greek Drama—Religious Origins  Also called ______________  Started in _____in honor of the Greek God __________  In the 6 th century B.C. individual actors began using dialogue with a _____to tell a story.  Heavily tied to the Greek ____________________ worshiped by the culture

3. Greek Drama—The Theater  It began as, for lack of a better term, a big Grecian ________(or religious festival)  Thousands attended…and the ________was the main form of _______________.  The theater was out doors, during the _____, and at the bottom of a hill  Each year at the festival of Dionysus playwright's competed for the “____________” of the Grecian times.

4. Greek Drama—Mythological Sources  The subjects of Greek tragedy are ________and __________  Myths are _____________________— legends are ___________________________.  Gods and goddesses are often characters in the Greek ________. Usually a tragic hero’s _________is a result of having ____________the gods.

5. Tragedy and the Tragic Hero  A Tragedy is a _______that recounts the _______of a _________, superior character who is involved in _________or socially ____________events.  _________was the first to define tragedy.

6. Sophocles  ____________was to become one of the great playwrights of the golden age  The son of a wealthy ________, he would enjoy all the comforts of a thriving Greek empire. He studied all of the ______.  At a young age he competed in the _____________--a festival held every year at the Theatre of Dionysus in which new _______were presented

7. Sophocles Continued  In his first competition, Sophocles took ______prize.  More than 120 plays were to follow. He would go on to win _______first prizes, and he would never fail to take at least second.

8. Oedipus Rex—Story time!  Sophocles's Oedipus Rex is probably the most famous tragedy ever written. Sophocles first produced the play in Athens around 430 B.C. at the Great Dionysia, a religious and cultural festival held in honor of the god Dionysus, where it won second prize.  In the play Oedipus, King of Thebes, upon hearing that his city is being ravaged by fire and plague, sends his brother-in-law Creon to find a remedy from the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. When Creon returns Oedipus begins investigating the death of his predecessor, Laius, and discovers through various means that he himself was the one who had unknowingly killed Laius and then married his own mother, Jocasta. Jocasta commits suicide, Oedipus blinds himself, takes leave of his children, and is led away.  Oedipus and Jocasta had four children: two boys and two girls. All four star in his next play Antigone.

9. Oedipus Rex

10. Terms to know:  1. Prologue: Spoken by one or two characters before the chorus appears. The prologue usually gives the __________information needed to understand the events of the play.  2. Parodos: the _______sung by the chorus as it makes its __________  3. Episodes/Scenes: the main _________of the play  4. Odes: a song (and often ______) that reflects on the events of the _______, and puts the ______into some kind of larger ____________framework

11. More Terms to know:  Choragos: the leader of the _______who often interacts with the ________in the scenes.  Chorus: the singers/dancers who _______on the action  strophe: the __________of the chorus from right to left across the stage  antistrophe: the reaction to the strophe, which moves across the _______from left to right.

12. Last of the Terms:  Paean: a prayer of ___________to Dionysos in whose honor the Greek plays were performed  Exodos: sung by the _____as it makes its final ____, which usually offers words of _________related to the actions and outcome of the play