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Chris Cloke, WHS English Department |
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(Contact me any time, and please let me know if you find a broken link.) |
The Antigone Help Page |
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Items Available:
Crossword Puzzles Images Study Help Vocabulary Words (Ode 4 & Paean not required) |
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1. Vocabulary Crossword #1 (Puzzle and Clues)
2. Vocabulary Crossword #2 (Puzzle and Clues)
3. Vocabulary Crossword #3 (Puzzle and Clues)
4. Character Crossword (Puzzle and Clues)
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Oedipus and Antigone by Fulchran Jean Harriet |
Antigone and Creon |
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A college production of Antigone Here Creon confronts Antigone |
Creon laments the loss of Haemon and Antigone |
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Creon sits on his throne |
Creon and the chorus (as elders) |
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Creon threatens Antigone |
Creon threatens Antigone |
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Ancient pottery depicting the Sentry bringing Antigone before Creon |
What Sophocles' theater would have looked like |
Antigone leads her blind father, Oedipus |
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Study Help:
Basic Characters:
Theban Shepherd Theseus Sphinx Laius Diomedes Aethra Haimon Choragos Eurydice |
Sentry Antigone Oedipus Ismene Tiresias Corinthian Shepherd Evadne Chorus Oracle of Delphi |
Eteocles Epigoni Merope Creon Polyneices Adrastus Polybus Jocasta |
1. meddle (v) to intrude into other people’s affairs or business; interfere
2. marshal (v) to arrange, set, or place in order; to guide ceremoniously
3. auspicious (adj) attended by favorable circumstances; favorable
4. scavenge (v) to feed on dead or decaying matter; to search
5. comprehensive (adj) to include much
6. lithe (adj) marked by effortless grace
7. lull (v) to cause to sleep or rest; soothe or calm
8. glut (v) to fill beyond capacity (especially with food)
9. insolence (n) the condition of being arrogant in speech or manner
10. transcend (v) to pass beyond the limits of; to surpass or excel11. deference (n) courteous respect
12. absolve (v) to pronounce clear of guilt or blame
13. subordinate (v) to put in a lower or inferior rank; to subdue
14. vault (n) an underground burial chamber
15. profane (v) to treat with disrespect; to speak in a vulgar manner
16. transgress (v) to commit an offense by violating a law or command
17. dirge (n) a funeral hymn or lament, usually slow and mournful
18. recoil (v) to shrink back, as in fear
19. defile (v) to make filthy or dirty; to desecrate
20. entrails (n) the internal organs (especially the intestines)21. endure (v) to carry on through hardships
22. deflect (v) to turn aside
23. pious (adj) religiously devoted
24. vengeance (n) infliction of punishment in return for a wrong; retribution
25. senile (adj) characteristic of old age; deteriorated from age
26. graven (adj) engraved; carved; etched
27. hearth (n) the floor of a fireplace extending into a room
28. waver (v) to move unsteadily back and forth
29. drowse (v) to make sleepy
30. sultry (adj) very humid and hot
1- http://webapps.getty.edu/bookstore/images-lg/antigone-lg.jpg
2-http://www.koxkollum.nl/mythologie/mytha19.htm
3- http://www.cps.ci.cambridge.ma.us/CRLS/WritingCenter/antigone.jpg
4- http://www.wmich.edu/theatre/shows/1999_2000/antigone.jpeg
5- http://www.central.edu/theatresite/images/shows/antigone.jpg
6- http://kimoulisg.tripod.com/antigone.html
7- http://kimoulisg.tripod.com/antigone.html
8- http://kimoulisg.tripod.com/antigone.html
9- http://vccslitonline.vccs.edu/antigone/images/antigoneODU.jpg
10- http://histoforum.digischool.nl/antigone/inleiding.htm
11- http://histoforum.digischool.nl/antigone/inleiding.htm
12- http://www.amrep.org/images/antigone/antigone01.jpg
13- http://www.greatestbooks.org/visitorlibrary/greatart/poland/brodowski/antigonei.jpg
