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ANTIGONE. By: Sophocles. The Theater. The theater for which Antigone was written was different from theaters we know today. More like a ___________. The Theater. Theater was _________ and plays only performed during daylight hours. Theater locations were carefully chosen.
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ANTIGONE By: Sophocles
The Theater • The theater for which Antigone was written was different from theaters we know today. • More like a ___________
The Theater • Theater was _________ and plays only performed during daylight hours. • Theater locations were carefully chosen. • Set on a hill, like a natural amphitheater. • Seats were built in rows and made of ______, ______, ______
The Theater • At base of rows was the ___________, where the play was performed. • Actors performed on the orchestra. • Chorus chanted and danced on the orchestra. • No raised stages like Shakespeare had.
The Theater • Theaters had great acoustics. • People could hear even in the highest rows. • Actors wore large masks, which helped to amplify the sound.
The Theater • Audience could also see action well, even from far away. • Actors wore oversized, well-padded clothing. • Actors also wore boots with raised soles.
Actors • Actors were all ______. • Moved in a stately and controlled way. • Less realistic than today’s actors. • Chorus consisted of 15 men with one spokesman, or leader, called the ________. • Chorus commented on action of play and interpreted its meaning for the audience.
The Theater • Greeks took theater very seriously. • Part of religious ritual. • Playwrights entered their plays in competitions. • Plays were performed for several days.
Sophocles • Sophocles was probably born in __________ • Won his first playwright competition when he was twenty-seven years old. • Beat most famous playwright in Athens.
Sophocles • Sophocles had a good life. • Born at Colonus to a wealthy family. • Received traditional education in dancing, music, and gymnastics. • He was handsome and graceful. • Two time general, priest, and member of commission to revise Athens’ constitution.
Sophocles • Sophocles probably wrote over ______ plays in his lifetime. • Only ______ in existence remain today.
Background of Antigone • Story begins when ______ (grandson of founder of Thebes) is king and Iocaste is queen. • An _______ proclaims that Laios will be killed by his own son. • Laios pierces and binds the feet of his infant son and abandons him on a mountain.
Background of Antigone • Infant is found and adopted by King _________. • Names the baby Oedipus. (Means “swollen foot.”)
Background of Antigone • When Oedipus becomes an adult, he is told (by another oracle) that he is destined to kill his ________ and marry his ________ • Leaves home to avoid fate. • Meets a stranger. • They fight, Oedipus kills man. (Not knowing it is his father.)
Background of Antigone • In meantime, a ________ has appeared at Thebes. • Winged monster with body of lion and face of woman. • Sphinx preys on travelers who can’t answer her riddle. • “What creature has four feet, then two, then three, but only one voice, and when it has the most feet it is the weakest?”
Background of Antigone • Oedipus answers correctly: a man. • Sphinx throws herself into sea and people offer to make Oedipus king and to give him Iocaste (their queen) for his wife. (Because their king has recently died.) • Oedipus accepts and marries his mother – the oracle has come true.
Background of Antigone • Oedipus and Iocaste have four children. • Two daughters: ________ and ________ • Two sons: _________ and ________ • Reign happily until a ______ strikes the city. • Plague because the murderer of the former king still lives there.
Background of Antigone • Oedipus promises to find this man. • Does not realize that it is ________. • Oedipus learns that he has married his mother and killed his father. • Iocaste commits suicide. • Oedipus blinds himself.
Background of Antigone • Oedipus is later exiled from Thebes. • Sons do nothing to help him • Oedipus leaves with his daughters and dies.
Background of Antigone • In the meantime, Creon has been ruling in Thebes. • Oedipus’ sons decide they should rule. • Creon sides with Eteocles • Brothers fight and kill each other. • Creon (still siding with Eteocles) has him buried and won’t bury Polyneices.
Background of Antigone • This was a terrible sentence. • Greeks believed that if you were not buried, you lived in ________ ________. • Antigone decides to defy Creon’s order and bury her brother which is where the tragedy of Antigone begins.
