Antigone Context Quiz

Where is the play, Antigone, set?

• Greece

• Italy

• Spain

• Germany

Sophocles focuses on the possible

conflicts between what?

• one's rights and one's identity

• one's religion and one's politics

• one's fears and one's ethics

• one's status and one's politics

The ancient Greeks did not live according to a single code of ethical behavior. No single god or organized church or particular way of living was singled out as the best.

• True

• False

Why is Creon's decision not to allow Antigone to bury her brother unusual considering the rules with Athenian territory?

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How was the play received by audiences when it was first performed in Athens?

• It was praised and even was voted first place in a dramatic competition

• It was criticized so it was not performed again until decades later

• There is little evidence that it was popular, yet it was regularly performed

In Ancient Greece, women were viewed as inferior to men

• True

• False

Explain the Hegelian view's interpretation of the play. (hint, it is complex versus the Orthodox view that one is right and the other is wrong)

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