GREEK DRAMA HANDOUTS

 

1. The prize given to the dancers was bull or goat.
2. In the open-air theater fit as much as a football stadium.
3. The mask with exaggerated mouthpieces amplified actor's voices.
4. Suspense came from their knowledge of things characters on stage did not known which made it suspenseful.
5. The shepherd is to leave Oedipus to die in alone mountainside.
6. The sphinx riddle was "what creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7. Oedipus kid's are Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.
8. Creon became king after Oedipus was exiled.
9. Polyneices dead body was left unburried and to rot in the sun.