Greek Drama Answers

1.  A bull or a goat was given as a prize to dancing choruses of worshipers.
2. About 14,000 spectators would gather in the open-air theater of Dionysos.
3. The mask would amplify the actor's voice.
4. Antigone was suspenseful to viewing audiences because they already knew the story so they pitied the characters and wanted to warn them.
5. The shepherd was to leave the infant on the mountain side with his (the baby's) ankles pinned together.
6. The riddle that the Sphinx gave to Oedipus was "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7. Oedipus's kids are Etocles, Polyneices, Antigone, and Ismene.
8. After Oedipus is exiled, Creon takes over Thebes.
9. The family would close the dead person's eyes and mouth and prepared the body for the wake by washing the body, dressing it in nice clothes, and placing the body on a portable framework.