| A | B |
|---|
| Antigone | Oedipus's daughter; wants to bury brother |
| Choragos | Leader of the chorus |
| Creon | Jocasta's brother; current king of Thebes |
| Eteocles | Oedipus's son; defended Thebes in battle; buried with honor |
| Eurydice | Haimon's mother |
| Haimon | Antigone's fiance |
| Ismene | Oedipus's daughter; fear's Creon's law |
| Jocasta | Oedipus's wife (and mother) |
| Laios | Former king killed by his son |
| Oedipus | Husband of Jocasta; blinded himself after fulfilling prophecy |
| Polyneices | Oedipus's son; defended Argos in battle; left unburied |
| Sentry | A watchman/guard |
| Tieresias | Blind prophet |
| Dionysos | Greek god of wine |
| Prologue | Exposition presented at the opening of a play |
| Chorus | A group that interprets the meaning of plays between scenes |
| Parados | An opening song |
| Ode | Songs that divide scenes in place of a curtain |
| Strophe | Song sung by chorus while moving right to left |
| Antistrophe | Song sung by chorus while moving left to right |
| Epode | A sort of final stanza present in some odes sung by the chorus |
| Paean | A statement of thanksgiving made to Dionysos before the exodus |
| Sophocles | Greek playwright/dramatist most known for his 3 Theban plays |
| Aeschylus | Highly respected Greek playwright/dramatist defeated by Sophocles |
| Euripedes | Highly respected Greek playwright/dramatist |
| Sphinx | Feared mythological creature with the head of a woman and body of a lion |
| Exodus | The chorus's final exiting scene |
