1) The dancing choruses of worshippers began to competing for prizes like a bull or a goat.
2) As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in the open-air Theater of Dionysos to watch playwrights chosen by the city magistrates competed for prizes in tragedy and comedy.
3) These masks had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actor's voices-an ancient solution to the problem resolved by microphones.
4) For Greek audiences watching Antigone, dispenser did not come from their anxiety admit what would harken next, because they already knew the story. Suspense came from their knowledge of things the characters on stage did not know.
5) Horrified by this prediction, they gave their baby to a shepherd with orders to leave the infant to die on a lonely mountainside with his ankles pinned together.
6) "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7) Oedipus' children were Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.
8) Jocasta's brother, Creon, took over Thebes.
9) Crown considered Eteocles an ally and gave him a hero's burial, he considered Polyneices a traitor, so he decreed that his body be left unburied, to rot in the sun outside the city gates.
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