Scholars

Question 1

Chorus representative of community

Answer 1

Carey

Question 2

Chorus a spectacle

Answer 2

Carey

Question 3

Chorus presents a religious and philosophical background

Answer 3

Carey

Question 4

Tragedy described as ‘suffering on the grand scale, with a divine backdrop’

Answer 4

Rutherford

Question 5

Gods are terrifying powers, guardians of justice or capricious gamesters

Answer 5

Rutherford

Question 6

Aristotle prescribing what was best

Answer 6

Rutherford

Question 7

Oedipus character ‘in accord with Aristotle poetics

Answer 7

Knox

Question 8

Prophecy more important than rationalism

Answer 8

Knox

Question 9

Allan

Answer 9

Oedipus is an instrument of divine punishment

Question 10

Dodds

Answer 10

Bacchae has a ‘bizzare humour’

Question 11

Glover

Answer 11

Euripedes wants us to think of Dionysus as evil

Question 12

An entire city is sacrificed for the offended vanity of a god

Answer 12

Schechner

Question 13

Dionysus is a ‘fickle god’

Answer 13

Schechner

Question 14

Pucci

Answer 14

Thebes has lost its cultural and religious identity

Question 15

Aeschylus wins because he’s from expansion era Athens at its height

Answer 15

Ruffell

Question 16

Dionysus is ‘buffoonish’ in frogs

Answer 16

Ruffel

Question 17

Morton

Answer 17

A good honest laugh

Question 18

Moorton

Answer 18

Poets the teachers of men

Question 19

Political comedy very important in political life

Answer 19

Carter