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ANCIENT PLAYWRIGHTS
ANCIENT PLAYWRIGHT
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "THE FROGS" | ARISTOPHANES |
| "LYSISTRATA" | ARISTOPHANES |
| "THE BIRDS" | ARISTOPHANES |
| "THE CLOUDS" | ARISTOPHANES |
| "THE WASPS" | ARISTOPHANES |
| "MEDEA" | EURIPIDES |
| "THE TROJAN WOMEN" | EURIPIDES |
| "ORESTES" | EURIPIDES |
| "ANTIGONE" | SOPHOCLES |
| "OEDIPUS THE KING" | SOPHOCLES |
| "OEDIPUS AT COLONUS" | SOPHOCLES |
| "THE ORESTEIA" | AESCHYLUS |
| "SEVEN AGAINST THEBES" | AESCHYLUS |
| "PROMETHEUS BOUND" | AESCHYLUS |
| OF THE GREEK TRAGEDY TRINITY AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES AND EURIPIDES, HE WAS THE LEAST HONORED IN HIS TIME | EURIPIDES |
| EUGENE O'NEILL WORKED BASED PARTLY ON THE "ORESTIA" OF AESCHYLUS | "MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA" |
| THIS GREEK FOUGHT AT SALAMIS & MARATHON, AND HIS 70 PLAYS INCLUDE THE "ORESTEIA" AND "PROMETHEUS BOUND" | AESCHYLUS |
| AESCHYLUS' GREATEST WORK MAY BE THIS TRILOGY ABOUT THE HOUSE OF ATREUS | ORESTEIA |
| TRADITION HOLDS THAT THIS PLAYWRIGHT DIED WHEN A BIRD DROPPED A TURTLE ON HIS BALD HEAD | AESCHYLUS |
| AESCHYLUS' PLAY NAMED FOR THIS KING OPENS AT HIS PALACE IN ARGOS | AGAMEMNON |
| THE HEROES IN THE TITLE OF THIS AESCHYLUS TRAGEDY INCLUDE POLYNEICES, TYDEUS & CAPANEUS | SEVEN AGAINST THEBES |
| THIS ANCIENT DRAMATIST IS KNOWN FOR HIS INNOVATIVE USE OF A SECOND ACTOR IN THIS PLAYS | AESCHYLUS |
| AESCHYLUS WROTE A TRILOGY DEALING WITH THE MYTH OF THIS BROTHER OF IPHIGENIA | ORESTES |
| THE GHOST OF THIS GREAT RULER APPEARS IN AESCHYLUS'S PLAY "THE PERSIANS" | DARIUS THE GREAT |
| THE 3 GREATEST ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDIANS | SOPHOCLES, AESCHYLUS, AND EURIPIDES |
| AESCHYLUS' DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE TITAN WHO WAS CONDEMNED FOR GIVING FIRE TO MERE MORTALS | PROMETHEUS BOUND |
| EURIPIDES WROTE A PLAY NAMED FOR THIS "COMPLEX" WOMAN OF MYTH | ELECTRA |
| ACCORDING TO A PLAY ABOUT HER BY EURIPIDES, THIS WOMAN DID NOT SPEND THE TROJAN WAR AT TROY BUT IN EGYPT | HELEN OF TROY |
| WHEN THIS MAN INTRODUCED HIS PLAY "MEDEA" IN A CONTEST HELD AT THE THEATER OF DIONYSUS IN 431 B.C., HE CAME IN LAST | EURIPIDES |
| IN EURIPIDES' PLAY ABOUT THIS FAMED BEAUTY, IT'S HER DOUBLE WHO GOES TO TROY | HELEN |
| A FRAGMENT FROM EURIPIDES HAS THE LINE, "THOSE WHOM GOD WISHES TO DESTROY, HE..." FIRST DOES THIS | "MAKES MAD" |
| ANCIENT GREEK DRAMATIST WHO WROTE THE ANTI-WAR PLAY "THE TROJAN WOMEN" | EURIPIDES |
| "CATTY" POET WHOSE 1949 PLAY "THE COCKTAIL PARTY" IS BASED ON AN ANCIENT GREEK PLAY BY EURIPIDES | T.S. ELIOT |
| BOTH SOPHOCLES AND EURIPIDES WROTE TRAGEDIES ABOUT THIS MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE NOTED FOR HER LOYALTY TO HER FATHER | ELECTRA |
| IN EURIPIDIES' TRAGEDY, JASON'S NEW WIFE IS BURNED ALIVE BY A WEDDING GIFT FROM THIS WOMAN | MEDEA |
| IN A PLAY BY EURIPIDES, HE GOES MAD AND THINKS HE'S TEARING DOWN THE WALLS OF MYCENAE BUT DESTROYS HIS OWN HOUSE | HERCULES |
| SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES, AND EUGENE O'NEILL ALL WROTE PLAYS WITH THIS WOMAN'S NAME IN THEIR TITLES | ELECTRA |
| IN "THE CLOUDS" BY ARISTOPHANE, A MAN DESIRES TO SEND HIS SON TO STUDY WITH THIS GREEK PHILOSOPHER | SOCRATES |
| IN 1967, "LYSISTRATA" BY ARISTOPHANES WAS BANNED IN THIS COUNTRY THEN CONTROLLED BY A MILITARY JUNTA | GREECE |
| ARISTOPHANE'S STYLE IS CALLED "OLD" THIS; MENANDER'S, LESS HIGH-SPIRITED, IS "NEW" THIS | COMEDY |
| MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS AFTER THIS ARISTOPHANES COMEDY DEBUTED, A MUSICAL VERSION HOPPED ONTO BROADWAY | THE FROGS |
| EVEN BACK IN ANCIENT GREECE THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY LOVED FRANCHISES; IN 418 B.C. HE WROTE "CLOUDS II" | ARISTOPHANES |
| "BIRDS" BRAIN WHO IS KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF COMEDY | ARISTOPHANES |
| HIS 1896 ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARISTOPHANES' "LYSISTRATA" WERE CONSIDERED LICENTIOUS | AUBREY BEARDSLEY |
| IN HIS PLAY "LYSISTRATA", THE WOMEN OF ATHENS REFUSE TO SLEEP WITH THEIR MEN UNTIL PEACE IS DECLARED | ARISTOPHANES |
| "OLD MEN ARE CHILDREN FOR A SECOND TIME", OBSERVED THIS PLAYWRIGHT IN "THE CLOUDS" | ARISTOPHANES |
| IN ARISTOPHANES' "THE BIRDS", A COUPLE OF ATHENIANS CONVINCE THE BIRDS TO FOUND A CITY CALLED THIS | CLOUD-CUCKOO LAND |
| PHILOSOPHER WHO WAS GROSSLY CARICATURED IN ARISTOPHANES' "THE CLOUDS" | SOCRATES |
| SOPHOCLES WROTE A TRAGEDY ABOUT THIS SELF-SACRIFICING DAUGHTER OF OEDIPUS | ANTIGONE |
| SOPHOCLES DIDN'T NAME A PLAY FOR HER, SO SHE'S LESS FAMOUS THAN HER SISTER, ANTIGONE | ISMENE |
| THIS "ELECTRA"FYING PLAYWRIGHT GETS THE CREDIT FOR ADDING A THIRD ACTOR TO GREEK TRAGEDIES | SOPHOCLES |
| ENGLISH SCHOLAR THOMAS WATSON IS BEST KNOWN TODAY FOR HIS 1581 TRANSLATION OF "ANTIGONE" BY THIS ANCIENT GREEK | SOPHOCLES |
| ONLY 7 OF HIS COMPLETE PLAYS EXIST, INCLUDING "OEDIPUS REX" AND "OEDIPUS AT COLONUS" | SOPHOCLES |
| STRAVINSKY ENLISTED THE HELP OF COCTEAU FOR A LIBRETTO BASED ON SOPHOCLES' PLAY ABOUT THIS THEBAN KING | OEDIPUS |
| WRITING ABOUT THIS ABSENCE OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY, SOPHOCLES SAID, "SHOW ME A GREATER EVIL!" | ANARCHY |
| ARISTOTLE SAID THIS MAN'S "OEDIPUS REX" WAS THE GREATEST PLAY EVER | SOPHOCLES |
| AS COMPOSED BY RICHARD STRAUSS, THE ROLE OF THIS "COMPLEX" SOPHOCLES HEROINE IS ONE OF OPERA'S MOST DEMANDING | ELECTRA |
| SOPHOCLES' FIRST PLAY ABOUT THIS THEBAN KING MARKED THE SUMMIT OF FORMAL GREEK DRAMA | OEDIPUS |
| A WOMAN WANTS TO BURY HER BROTHER POLYNEICES AGAINST THE KING'S WISHES IN THIS TRAGEDY BY SOPHOCLES | ANTIGONE |
| SOPHOCLES' PLAYS WERE FIRST PERFORMED ON THE ACROPOLIS IN THE THEATER NAMED FOR THIS GOD | DIONYSUS |
| IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT SOPHOCLES AND SOCRATES BOTH ATTENDED THE DEDICATION OF THIS TEMPLE IN 438 B.C. | PARTHENON (TEMPLE OF ATHENA) |
| SOPHOCLES' SEQUEL TO "OEDIPUS REX" | OEDIPUS AT COLONUS |
| APPROPRIATELY, THE NAME OF THIS DRAMATIST COMES FROM GREEK WORDS MEANING "WISE" AND "FAMOUS" | SOPHOCLES |
| THIS PLAYWRIGHT DIED IN 406 B.C., SO HE NEVER SAW HIS FAMOUS TRAGEDY AT COLONUS PRODUCED | SOPHOCLES |
| THIS PLAYWRIGHT BORN IN COLONUS AROUND 496 B.C. WROTE ONE OF HIS FINEST PLAYS WHEN HE WAS 90 | SOPHOCLES |
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