10 Sophocles - Antigone, Oedipus Rex & Colonus

Question 1

Acheron

Answer 1

Acheron (ACK ur aan): a river in the underworld

Question 2

Aegeus

Answer 2

Aegeus (EE juhs): king of Athens; father of Theseus (THEE see us); drowned himself upon seeing black sails approaching [ATBS]

Question 3

Agave

Answer 3

Agave (a GAH vay): daughter of Cadmus; mother of Pentheus; she placed his head on her spike thinking she had killed Lion. [CPL]

Question 4

Amathia

Answer 4

Amathia (ah-MAF-ia): failure to recognize one’s own nature; the opposite of Sophia (wisdom)

Question 5

Antigone’s Parents

Answer 5

Antigone (an TI guh nee): daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta [OJ]

Question 6

Aristophanes

Answer 6

Aristophanes (eh ruh STOF uh neez): the Father of Greek Comedy; wrote ‘The Frogs’ [FGCF]

Question 7

Athena aka

Answer 7

Pallas

Question 8

Bacchae

Answer 8

Bacchae (BACK ee): female devotees of Bacchus (BACH kuss); aka Maenads (ME-nad), Bacchants (bah-CAN’T) [BMB]

Question 9

Bacchus God: function & aka

Answer 9

Bacchus (BACH kuss): god of wine and revelry; aka Dionysus (dai uh NAI suhs) [WRD]

Question 10

Castalia

Answer 10

Castalia (kass-TAIL-ia): the sacred spring at Delphi on Mt. Parnassus

Question 11

Cerberus

Answer 11

Cerberus (SIR bur us): three-headed dog that guards Hades

Question 12

Cithaeron location in Sophocles

Answer 12

Cithaeron (suh-THEE-run): mountains separating Thebes from Corinth; mountains where baby Oedipus was exposed [TCO]

Question 13

Colonus

Answer 13

Colonus: a village north of Athens where blind Oedipus went to live

Question 14

Corinth Location & Rulers

Answer 14

Corinth: port on the Gulf of Corinth; kingdom of Polybus (paul uh buhs) and Merope [GCPM]

Question 15

Creon

Answer 15

Creon (KREE on): brother of Jocasta; succeeded Oedipus as King of Thebes [JOT]

Question 16

Delos

Answer 16

Aegean Island southeast of Athens; birthplace of Apollo and Artemis [AAAA]

Question 17

Delphi

Answer 17

Delphi: temple of Apollo on Mt. Parnassus on the mainland

Question 18

Dionysus

Answer 18

Dionysus (dai uh NAI suhs): Greek god of wine, fertility, ecstasy, and theater [WFET]

Question 19

Electra

Answer 19

Electra (eh LECK tra): sister of Orestes (aw RESS tees); convinced him to kill their mother Clytemnestra and lover Aegisthus (ee JISS thuss) [OCA]

Question 20

Eleusinian Mysteries

Answer 20

Eleusinian Mysteries (eli oh SIN ee uhn): reenactment of abduction of Persephone, from mother Demeter, by Hades. [PDH]

Question 21

Eleusis

Answer 21

Eleusis (ee LOU suhs): a town northwest of Athens, home of the rites

Question 22

Epicaste aka

Answer 22

Epicaste (eh-puh KASS tay) aka: Jocasta (joe KASS ta)

Question 23

Erinyes: aka & function

Answer 23

Erinyes (uh REEN uh ease): the Furies; female deities that avenge those who swear false oaths

Question 24

Eteocles

Answer 24

Eteocles (eh TEE oh klees): son of Oedipus; brother of Antigone and Polyneices (pa luh NIGH sees) [OAP]

Question 25

Eumenides

Answer 25

Eumenides (you MEH nuh dees): means “The Kindly Ones” a title given to the Furies after the trial of Orestes (aw RESS tees)