| A | B |
|---|
| Sophocles | Writer of Antigone |
| Dionysis | Festival where play was first performed |
| Athens | Sophocles lived and wrote here |
| Amphitheater | Place where Greek plays were perfomed |
| Satyr | A light comedy with a mythic theme |
| Tragedy | Plays w/heroic characters & unhappy endings |
| Comedy | Plays w/ordinary characters & happy endings |
| Myth | An old story/explains belief, ritual, nature |
| Oedipus | Character who kills father & marries mother |
| Sphinx | Monster that menaces Thebes |
| Laios | Killed by Oedipus (was O's father) |
| Jocasta | Wife of Laios - married Oedipus |
| Thebes | City of major conflict in play |
| Creon | King of Thebes after 2 bros. killed each other |
| Eteocles | Creon gave hero's burial - O's son |
| Polyneices | Left to rot outside city - O's other son |
| Antigone | O's strong daughter-upset b/c of burial plans |
| Ismene | Weak sister-O's other daughter |
| Man | Uses 4, 2, & 3 legs to walk depending on time of day |
| Oracle | Prophesizes O will kill father/marry mother |
| Menoikeus | Father of Creon |
| The Chorus | Praises the accomplishments of humans |
| Sentry | Acts as a mediator btwn father & son |
| Choragos | Leads chorus |
| Haimon | Argues that citizens don't want Antigone harmed |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love and beauty |
| Ares | God of war |
| Niobe | Zeus turned her into stone |
| Danae | Gave birth to Zeus's son |
