Ten Times Aeschylus

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1. Which of the following is the only full tragic trilogy preserved from Athenian drama? "The Prometheus Trilogy" by Aeschylus "The Oresteia" by Aeschylus "The Oedipus Trilogy" by Sophocles "The Trojan Trilogy" by Euripides

2. Which of the following statements is the most accurate description of the characteristics of Zeus in "Prometheus Bound"? He is a new god, who only recently has become the ruler of Olympus He is tyrannical, cruel and vengeful He is in danger of losing his power to someone stronger, whose name only Prometheus knows All the answers are true

3. In "The Suppliants", the Chorus consists of the title characters; there are 50 of them and they are well known from mythology. Who are they? The Amazons The Danaids The Nymphs The Heliades

4. In "The Persians", who is the Persian king commanding the invasion on Greece? Darius Sosthanes Cambyses Xerxes

5. "Seven against Thebes" tells the story of whose sons? sons of Oedipus sons of Creon sons of Antigone sons of Danaos

6. What does queen Clytemnestra do when her husband Agamemnon finally returns home in Aeschylus' "Agamemnon"? She demands explanations about the death of their daughter Iphigenia She leaves the palace, while Aegistus murders the king She demands explanations about Cassandra, the king's concubine Together with her lover Aegisthus she murders him

7. In "Libation Bearers", how does Electra know about her brother's arrival? She hears from her sister She has a prophetic dream showing him returning to the homeland She hears from the chorus She sees the lock of his hair put on their father's grave

8. Who are the Eumenides, the chorus of the play of the same title? Literally "The Kindly Ones" All the answers are true The Erinyes, or the Furies The vengeful divine pursuers of Orestes

9. In which of the plays of Aeschylus there is a scene of summoning the ghost? In "The Libation Bearers", when Electra summons the ghost of her father In "Seven against Thebes", when the spirit of Oedipus curses his sons In "Agamemnon", when the ghost of Cassandra foretells the future death of her lover Agamemnon In "The Persians", when the spirit of king Darius is summoned by his widow and elders

10. YES or NO? Is Aeschylus the one that wins the poetic tournament in Hades and is taken back to life by Dionysos in Aristophanes' "Frogs"? Yes No