Sophocles Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is theatre? - Answer-Communication, subjective, live storytelling, conflict and resolution, education, course, transfer of information, entertainment, business, collaborative art form, interactive, building, holding mirror, scope (theatre of war), soapbox, human experience, opinion, place to see live performance, career, improvisation Theatre started with _____ first & _____ second - Answer-Greeks, Romans Greatest influence for western theatre - Answer-Greeks, Elizabethan Renaissance, ...

TJC English 2332 Final Exam Review Question and answers 100% correct 2024 TJC English 2332 Final Exam Review What are the two poles of the human condition? - correct answer War & Peace - they are on Achilles' shield Who are the three Greek playwrights? - correct answer Sophocles / Euripides / Aeschylus Archon; - correct answer mayor Catharsis; - correct answer some sort of emotional release Choragus; - correct answer priest of Dionysus Choregos; - correct answer "patron" u...

The Classical Period 500 BCE- 500 CE - Themes: balance, truth/reason, democracy/republic, polytheism, humanism Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—engaged in pursuit of truth through logic and reason. Poetry: The Odyssey-Homer A Lament for Adonis-Sappho Theater: Oedipus Rex- Sophocles Aristophanes- Lysistrata Music: "First Delphic Hymn to Apollo" is the earliest surviving fragment of notated music from anywhere in the Western world. The Middle Ages - religion, deferenc...

CLC 106 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers Ritual - Answer-A traditional pattern of action Folktale - Answer-Ordinary folk, talking animals, strange creatures, giants, witches. Unspecified, generic Legend - Answer-Mortal heroes. Distant past, known places Myth - Answer-Immortal gods. In illo tempore, sacred space "at that (other) time." Etiology myth(origin myth) - Answer-Intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomenon, proper names. Aeschylus - A...

Oedipus Worksheet Questions with Accurate Answer 2024 Who were King Laius and Queen Jocasta? They were the rulers of Thebes and the biological parents of Oedipus. Why did King Laius and Queen Jocasta decide to get rid of their infant son? They were told by an oracle that their son would kill Laius and marry Jocasta. Why didn't the abandoned baby (Oedipus) die? After being given to a shepherd who was supposed to leave the baby to die, the shepherd changed his mind and gave it t...

Fifteenth and Sixteenth century Europe - correct answer -Uprising of criticism of organized religion because of the invention of the printing press and the widespread printing of the bible in the vernacular and not in Latin -Renaissance: 1) women became better educated and started writing and becoming artists 2) realism in painting -Transatlantic exploration -Humanist period of thought syntax - correct answer The way in which words are put together to form phrases semantics - corr...

Western audiences, to a great degree have been brought up watching Aristotelian story telling Correct Answer: True The inciting incident in a story happens after the crisis Correct Answer: false there were 24 chorus members in the tragedy of sophocles Correct Answer: false according to the aristotle good tragedies raise questions about the meaning of human kind's existence Correct Answer: true the new comedy of menander was severely critical of the athenian government's role in t...

4 Explain why Tiresias mentions that he serves Apollo (line 4). Make two points. [2] 5 Give the names of Oedipus’ mother and father (line 14). [2] 6 What is Cithaeron (line 20)? [1] 7 Give the name of one of Oedipus’ children (line 25). [1] 8 Explain how successfully Sophocles makes the scene in Source B an exciting piece of theatrical action. Make four points and support each point with reference to Source B. [8] 9* Assess how important you think the imagery of sight and blindness is...

What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the largest single span dome for Centeries. - The Patheon Plato's Allgery in the Cave, what do the shadows represent? - Every Day Life...

NAQT Literature UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Hamlet - CORRECT ANSWER- A drama written by William Shakespeare, this play revolves around a royal family in Denmark, where the lead character's father, who shares his name, is killed by his uncle. The drama is based on the lead character's quest for revenge. Oedipus Rex - CORRECT ANSWER- A drama written by Sophocles, this play revolves around an Ancient Greek hero who has gained the kingship of Thebes, and his growing horror...