You may wish to re-examine Part 3 of The Densonary for HUM 2211 since your instructor has fleshed out many of the notes from films, videos, etc.  You may also wish to have a friend thumb through Antigone and read out passages for you to identify.

The test will be multiple-guess, true-false, and matching, whereas the following may use some short answer questions to stimulate your little gray cells.

1.  Name the top Greek gods and what each was responsible for.

2.  Who was bitten by a poisonous snake and carried to the Underworld?

3.  What is the name of the Underworld?  Who is its ruler?

4.  Who was grabbed and carried to the Underworld to be its queen?

5.  What person wanted to retrieve the person in #2 above?  In #4?

6.  Put the following in chronological order regarding the Greek theatre:  Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Thespis.

7.  For what is each of the men in #6 noted?

8.  In a play, who or what would provide a relief in tension?

9.  (True-false)  The Greek audience relied on programs to tell the identities of actors and their characters.

10.  (True-false)  The Greek plays were only performed a few times during the year.

11.  (True-false)  Sophocles' plays used no more than three actors, not counting the members of the chorus.

12.  (True-false) Sophocles' plays used no more than three characters, not counting the members of the chorus.

13.  What are two major sayings to be found on the Temple at Delphi?

14.  That temple was dedicated to whom?

15.  If you do a shameful deed (and feel ashamed for it), what would you call your shame (back in Ancient Greece) and what would others call it?

16. (T-F)  By our standards, Lysistrata would be tame stuff regarding male-female situations.

17.  Who said, "O dear! O, dear! Now I declare I've got a bump on my rump"?  In what did the quotation appear?

18.  Name the children of Oedipus and Jocasta.

19.  How was Creon related to Oedipus and Jocasta?

20.  In Antigone, the State threatens to take the lives of which characters?  (Name three.)

21.  How many deaths occur DURING the play (not before it begins)?

22.  When was Sophocles born and when did he die?  That's about how many years?

Some quotations:
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23.  Speaker A:  But no one must hear of this, you must tell no one!  I will keep it a secret, I promise!

24.  Speaker B:  Oh tell it!  Tell everyone!  Think how they'll hate you when it all comes out if they learned that you knew about it all the time!
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25.  I call God to witness that if I saw my country headed for ruin, I should not be afraid to speak out plainly; and I need hardly remind you that I would never have any dealings with an enemy of the people.

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26.  I did not do it.  I did not see who did.  You must not punish me for what someone else has done.

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27.  The gods favor this corpse?  Why?  How had he served them?  Tried to loot their temples, burn their images, Yes, and the whole State, and its laws with it!

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28.  You smile at me.  Ah ------, think me a fool if you like; but it may well be that a fool convicts me of folly.

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29.  Ask Creon.  You're always hanging on his opinions.

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30.  There are places enough for him to push his plow.  I want no wicked women for my sons!

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31.  Good lives are made so by discipline.  We keep the laws then, and the lawmakers, and no woman shall seduce us.  If we must lose, let's lose to a man at least.

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32.  It is not reason never to yield to reason!  In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all.

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33.  Let me do, or dream to do, more than a man can.  He shall not save these girls from death.

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34.  Speaker A:  Her guards shall have good cause to regret their delaying.

35.  Speaker B:  Ah!  That voice is like the voice of death!

36.  Speaker A:  I can give you no reason to think you are mistaken.

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37.  O my son, these are no trifles!  Think:  all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil.  The only crime is pride.

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38.  They are dead.  The living are guilty of their death.

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39.  Her grief is too great for public lamentation, and doubtless she has gone to her chamber to weep for her dead son. . . .

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40.  Oh pity!  All true, all true, and more than I can bear!

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