1) As a prize, dancing choruses and worshipers receive a bull or a goat.
2) As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in the open-air Theater of Dionysus.
3) Those masks that they wore had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actors' voices.
4) Suspense did not come from the Greek audiences watching Antigone's anxiety about what would happen next, because they already knew the story. Suspense came from their knowledge of things the characters on stage did not know.
5) The shepherd took pity on the baby.
6) The riddle the sphinx gave to Oedipus was, "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening".
7) Oedipus's kids are Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.
8) After Oedipus is exiled, Creon took over as regent of Thebes.
9) To Eteocles body, his Family buried with hero's honor and Polynecies' was left to rot outside the gates of Thebes.
No comments:
Post a Comment