GREEK TRAGIC TITLES

What is the title of the play in which "we are conscious for the first time of an attitude characteristic of modern literature, the artist's feeling of separation from the audience, the isolation of the poet"?

Medea

What is the title of the play in which a mother murders her two sons in order to punish their father for abandoning her?

Medea

What is the title of the play in which a man discovers that he has murdered his father and married and reproduced with his own mother?

Oedipus the King

What is the title of the play that provides "the basis of the most famous attempt to define the nature of the tragic process [. . . as well as the basis of the] influential doctrine of the fall of the tragic hero"?

Oedipus the King

What is the title of the work that features "the most famous attempt to define the nature of the tragic process [. . . as well as the] influential doctrine of the fall of the tragic hero"?

Poetics

What is the title of the work that introduces such concepts as catharsis, peripeteia, anagnorisis, and pathos as they relate to tragedy?

Poetics

What is the title of the work that "preserves the memory of an important historical process through which the Greeks had passed: the transition from a tradition that demanded that a murdered person's next of kin avenge the death to a system requiring settlement of the private quarrel by a court of law"?

The Oresteia

What is the title of the work that "offers Athenian democracy its charter myth just as it is entering the era of its greatest achievements and its greatest risks"?

The Oresteia

What is the title of the play in which a husband is murdered by his wife upon his return home from the Trojan War?

Agamemnon

What is the title of the play in which a sister is sentenced to death for attempting to bury her dead brother?

Antigone

What is the title of the play whose title character, "as a hero of the resistance to tyrannical power, has deservedly become one of the Western world's great symbolic figures [. . . and] is clearly presented [. . .] as a champion of a higher morality against the overriding claims of state necessity"?

Antigone

What is the title of the play in which a son stands trial for murdering his mother?

The Eumenides

What is the title of the play that features "the first court of law"?

The Eumenides

What is the title of the play in which a son murders his mother in order to avenge his father's murder?

The Libation Bearers

What is the title of the only trilogy of tragic plays to survive from classical antiquity?

The Oresteia