ANTIGONE

Question 1

Who is the Author

Answer 1

Sophocles

Question 2

Friends with Who and When?

Answer 2

Friend of Pericles and Herodotus and in 5th century B.C.E

Question 3

How did he win fame?

Answer 3

He won fame by defeating another playwright named Aeschylus for a prize in Athens 468 B.C.E

Question 4

Stats?

Answer 4

7 in modern times, wrote over 100 won 24

Question 5

What is he credited with?

Answer 5

He is credited with changing Greek drama by adding a third actor, reducing the role of the chorus, and paying greater attention to character development.

Question 6

When was Antigone preformed?

Answer 6

Sometime around the year 441 B.C.E just before Athens fought a war against the revolt of Samos.

Question 7

Why are events that happened to Sophocles(during the war of Athens when he was selected as one of the 9 generals) relevant.

Answer 7

Because the plays central issues revolve around the power by the states, justifiable revolution, and the duties of citizens to obey the law

Question 8

When was Antigone written?

Answer 8

Circa 442 BCE

Question 9

Literary Period or classical

Answer 9

The classical period was an era of war and conflict, first between the Greeks and Persians, then between the Athens and Spartans

Question 10

Genre

Answer 10

Tragic Drama

Question 11

Setting

Answer 11

The royal house of Thebes