1. What kind of prize is given for dancing choruses of
worshippers?
Answer: The dancing choruses of worshippers were awarded a
bull or a goat.
2. How many spectators would gather in the open-air theatre
of Dionysos?
Answer: As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in
the open-air theatre.
3. How does the mask affect the voices of the actors?
Answer: These masks had mouthpieces that amplified the
actors’ voices.
4. Why was Antigone suspenseful to viewing audiences?
Answer: Suspense came from their knowledge of things the
characters on stage did not know.
5. How is the shepherd to leave the infant on the
mountainside?
Answer: The shepherd is to leave the baby with his ankles
pinned together.
6. What is the riddle the Sphinx gave to Oedipus?
Answer: “What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two
legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?”
7. Who are Oedipus' kids?
Answer: Oedipus’ kids were two sons, Polyneices and Etocles;
and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene.
8. After Oedipus is exiled, who takes over Thebes?
Answer: Jocasta’s brother and Oedipus’ uncle Creon took over
Thebes.
9. What did the family do to the dead body?
Answer: Creon decreed that Polyneices; body be left
unburied, to rot in the sun outside the city gates.
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