Literature and History

Who wrote the Oresteia trilogy?

Aeschylus

What are the three plays that make up the Oresteia trilogy?

• Agamemnon

• The Libation Bearers

• The Eumenides

Which Greek playwright fought at Marathon and is known as the “father of tragedy"?”

Aeschylus

Who wrote Electra?

Sophocles

Who are Electra’s parents?

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

Who wrote Hippolytus and Medea?

Euripdes

Who wrote the Theogony?

Hesiod

What does the word tragedy literally mean in Greek?

Goat song (related to Dionysus rituals)

Which play ends with Oedipus dying in peace under divine protection?

Oedipus at Colonus

Where do we get the account of Clytemnestra and killing Agamemnon?

The Odyssey and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon ( in the Oresteia)

Which daughter of Oedipus tried to mediate between Antigone and Creon?

Ismene

Which Greek tragedy play features the curse of the House of Atreus?

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

How did the curse of the House of Atreus begin?

When Tantalus (Atreus’ grandfather) killed his son Pelops and served him in a meal to the gods

Which playwright wrote the play the Trojan Women?

Euripides

In the Bacchae, who is the god who punishes Pentheus for mocking him?

Dionysus

In Oedipus Rex, what city is suffering from a plague?

Thebes

What crime does Medea commit in Euripides tragedy by the same name?

She murders her own children

Which heroine defied a king Creon, ruler of Thebes, to bury her brother?

Antigone