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Ancient Greek Plays

YGK These Ancient Greek Plays

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The Aristophanes comedy in which Dionysus journeys to the underworld to bring back the playwright Euripides The Frogs
The rhythmic chant of the chorus of frogs in the underworld Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax
The playwright Dionysus ultimately decides to bring back to life at the end of The Frogs Aeschylus
The city in the sky, or "Cloudcuckooland," built by birds to blockade the Olympian gods Nephelokokkygia
The Athenian who convinces the birds to build a city and eventually marries Zeus's mistress, Basileia Peisthetaerus
The Aristophanes play that lampoons Socrates and the Sophists' "Thinkery" The Clouds
The son of Strepsiades who uses debating skills learned from Socrates to justify beating his father Pheidippides
The Athenian woman who leads a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian War Lysistrata
The Spartan woman who supports Lysistrata's plan to unite the women of Greece Lampito
The monster defeated by Oedipus to become the King of Thebes The Sphinx
The tragedy in which a king unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother Oedipus Rex
The prophet who reveals to Oedipus that he is the murderer of King Laius Teiresias
The item Oedipus uses to blind himself after discovering the truth of his heritage Jocasta’s brooches
The daughter of Oedipus who is sentenced to be entombed alive for burying her brother Polyneices Antigone
The ruler of Thebes who forbids the burial of the "rebel" Polyneices Creon
The son of Creon and fiancé of Antigone who commits suicide after her death Haemon
The Aeschylus play describing the siege of Thebes by seven captains Seven Against Thebes
The two sons of Oedipus who kill each other in a battle for the control of Thebes Polyneices and Eteocles
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