Greek Drama Questions

1. The prize given to the dancing choruses of worshipers was either a bull or a goat.
2. 20,000 people would spectate in the open-air theater of Dionysos.
3. The mask would project and amplify the voices of the actors out to the audience.
4. Antigone was suspenseful to viewing audiences because the audience kind of already knew what was going to happen, but the characters/actors obviously acted like they didn’t know. It was like how people today are with scary movies.
5. The shepherd is to leave Oedipus to die one the mountainside.
6. The sphinx’s riddle was “What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?”
7. Oedipus’ kids are Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.
8. Creon claimed himself king of Thebes after Oedipus was exiled.