upenn cert

aeschylus

orestia, prometheus bound, suppliants

euripides

medea, bacchae, alcestis

sophocles

oedipus rex, antigone, electra

suppliants main characters

daenads

king whom daenads sought asylum from

pelasgus

suppliants published

463 BCE

conflict with whom in suppliants

egyptians

the egyptians, danaids, amymone

danaid tetralogy

who chained prometheus

kratos, bia, hephaestus

who does prometheus call upon

nature

whom does prometheus hint that he knows a secret about zeus

daughters of oceanus

oceanus’s carriage drawn by

griffin

what prometheus has done for humans

catalogue of arts

prometheus tells the past of

io

questions prometheus answers

what’s io’s fate? what descendant of io will eventually rescue prometheus?

orestes’s cousin

pylades

orestia originally included in

satyr play, proteus

3 parts of orestia

agamemnon, the liberation bearers, the eumenides

agamemnon

murder of agamemnon & cassandra by clytemnestra

the liberation bearers

orestes’s revenge

orestes’s sister

electra

orestes is ordered to kill clytremnstra by…

apollo

the eumenides

orestes’s trial

orestes’s trial location

areopagus

furies name changes to

eumenides

medea tetralogy

philoctetes, dictys, theristai (saytr play)

medea ends the infertility of

aegeus

jason’s new wife

glauce of corinth (father is creon)

medea grandfather

helios

pentheus mom

agave

what mountain did the women of thebes dance

cithaeron

why did pentheus ban worship of dionysus

dancing of women on mt cithaeron

penthesus thinks he sees what in the sky

2 suns & believe he can rip up a mountain

pentheus wants to climb what tree

evergreen

alcestis

other than rhesus, oldest poem of euripides

apollo got who drunk

fates

admetus father

pheres

admetus’s promises to alcestis

never remarry, forget her or replace her, and lead life of solemnity

with whom does admetus break his promise to alcestis?

heracles (drinking wine = merrymaking)

after returning from death, alcestis cannot…

speak for 3 days

oedipus rex is…

one of the 3 surviving plays that deal with oedipus and theseus (2nd written)

the theban plays

oedipus rex, oedipus at colonus, antigone

oedipus rex is referred to several times in…

aristole’s poetics

oedipus rex rename

oedipus tyrannus

curse upon laius

laius kidnapping chrysippus (son of pelops, brother to atreus and thyestes)

laius cursed by…

apollo

on what crossroad was laius killed?

branch to daulis on the way to delphi

oedipus rex common greek maxim

no man should be considered fortunate until he is dead

2nd oldest play written by sophocles

antigone

oldest play written by sophocles

ajax

antigone is compared to

niobe

ismene

foil for antigone

eurydice

creon’s wife

koryphaios

creon’s assistant, close family friend

antigone is a continuation of…

7 against thebes

electra sent orestes to…

phocis

pylades is the son of…

strophius

electra’s sister

chrysothemis

electra & chrysothemis are told that

orestes died

orestes arrives at mycenae with

an urn carrying his ashes

tutor

loyal to agamemnon, orestes’s personal attendant

pylades is a

nonspeaking role