Antigone Crossword

4. Greek word for city-state
5. final scene of play, closes, ties up loose ends tells what happens to main characters
7. Antigone tried to bury him against Creon's law
9. is Creon's wife and Haemon's mother. Broken by her son's suicide, she kills herself
11. Queen of Theves; Oedipus' biological mother and wife
17. does not help to bury Polyneices, but tries to claim responsibility for the burial later so that she can die with Antigone.
18. A character or force in conflict with the main character
20. classical Greek poem
23. head chorus member who could enter the story as a character able to interact with the characters of a play
24. Singers and dancers in a play who present odes on the action.

1. Conversation between characters in a play
2. hero essentially good character with a tragic flaw
3. Patron god of Greek drama
6. reports the suicides of Antigone and Haemon to the Chorus and Eurydice
7. the principal character in a work of fiction
8. He does not recognize that other forms of justice exist, and in his pride he condemns Antigone, defies the gods, and brings ruin on himself.
10. a recognition of the difference in perception and reality
12. The conclusion of a play in Greek terms; when the hero dies/ is brought down
13. both the daughter and the sister of Oedipus
14. time and place of a story or play
15. brings the news that Polyneices has been buried
16. depicts the downfall of a noble hero or heroine, usually through some combination of hubris, fate, and the will of the gods.
19. swollen foot
21. is the son of Creon and Eurydice and is engaged to be married to Antigone
22. excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance