Ancient Greek Plays

Question 1

Dionysus journeys to the underworld with Xanthias

Answer 1

The Frogs

Question 2

Peisthetaerus and Euelpides seek out Tereus

Answer 2

The Birds

Question 3

The protagonist, Strepsiades, fears that his horse-obsessed son, Pheidippides, is spending too much money

Answer 3

The Clouds

Question 4

Athenian woman who decides to end the Peloponnesian War

Answer 4

Lysistrata

Question 5

Oedipus, a man who became king of Thebes by defeating a monster called the sphinx

Answer 5

Oedipus Rex

Question 6

the immediate aftermath of a battle in which Oedipus’s two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, killed each other while struggling to control Thebes

Answer 6

Antigone

Question 7

Oedipus’s two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, who initially agreed to rule Thebes together before Eteocles seized the kingship for himself

Answer 7

Seven Against Thebes

Question 8

a sorceress from Colchis who saved Jason and the Argonauts during their quest for the Golden Fleece

Answer 8

Medea

Question 9

Dionysus arrives in Thebes to seek vengeance against his aunt Agave, who has denied his immortality, and her son Pentheus, who as King of Thebes bans the worship of Dionysus

Answer 9

The Bacchae

Question 10

Originally a four-play cycle, only three works (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides) survive

Answer 10

Oresteia