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Question 1
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Who wrote the play Medea?
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Sophocles
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Euripides
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Socrates
Question 2
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When was Antigone first performed?
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428 BCE
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440 BCE
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431 BCE
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429 BCE
Question 3
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When was Medea first preformed?
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428 BCE
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440 BCE
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431 BCE
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429 BCE
Question 4
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When was Oedipus Rex first performed?
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429 BC
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430 BC
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428 BC
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440 BC
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431 BC
Question 5
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When was Hippolytus first preformed?
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428 BCE
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431 BCE
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429 BCE
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440 BCE
Question 6
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What were Aristotle's ideas about tragedy?
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It had to produce catharsis greater understanding of the will of the gods and men.
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Six main elements: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle and song.
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The chorus should always disagree with the will of the main character to show rejection of reason.
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the tragic flaw hamartia of the main character often leads to their downfall.
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A bad person cannot come to a good end and vice versa in a tragedy.
Question 7
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How many times did Sophocles win in the festival of Dionsysus competition
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11
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7
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18
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16
Question 8
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How would the character of Antigone been viewed?
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Manly- because she was stoic and women were supposed to be irrational and emotional
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Uncivilised- law breakers were viewed as barbarians in Athenian society
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Courageous- her act of defying human law for divine law, despsite facing death
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Sympathetic- she has such familial love (philia) for her brother that she is blinded to the law
Question 9
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Contextually, when was Oedipus Rex written?
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Around the time of the Peloponnesian war
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A few decades after the Golden Age of drama
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Just before the Great Plague of Athens
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Around the same time Homer wrote the Illiad
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