Ancient Greek Tragedians

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1. Name these three great playwrights in chronological order. Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus

2. Where was the first of the classical great tragic dramatists born? Thebes Corinth Eleusis Delphi

3. Was Aeschylus' influence on the development of tragedy fundamental? Yes No

4. Is Sophocles credited with several dramatic innovations? Yes No

5. Who was known as the "Father of Tragedy"? Menander Euripides Aeschylus Sophocles

6. Who wrote “The Persians”? Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes

7. Who is the precursor of the modern psychological drama? Euripides Sophocles Aeschylus Aristoteles

8. List the surviving plays of Sophocles. "Medea", "Alcestis", "Andromache", "Hecuba", "Hyppolitus", "The Phoenissae " "Agamemnon","The Libation Bearers","The Eumenides", "Iphigenia at Aulis ,"Iphigenia in Tauris" "Ajax", "Antigone", "Oedipus the King", "Electra", "Women of Trachis", "Philoctetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" "The Persians", "Seven against Thebes","Prometheus Bound", "Hecuba"

9. How many plays by Aeschylus have survived, according to the traditional attribution? seven six twenty seventeen

10. Is there a story about Aeschylus’death as well as about Euripides’death? Yes No