1. A bull or a goat is given for dancing choruses of worshippers.
2. Fourteen thousand spectators would gather in the open-air theatre of Dionysos.
3. The mask affects the voices of actors in that it amplifies their voices or makes them louder.
4. Antigone was suspenseful to viewing audiences because the audience already knew the story of Antigone, while the characters remained ignorant. The audience tried to warn the characters, but still saw them choose the wrong decision.
5. The shepherd was to leave the infant to die on the mountainside.
6. The riddle the Sphinx gave to Oedipus was, "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7. Oedipus's kids were Polyneices, Eteocles, Ismene and Antigone.
8. After Oedipus was exiled, Creon takes over Thebes.
9. Families did multiple things to the dead body. Such things were the following: close the person's eyes/mouth, wash the body, dress the body in white or wedding clothes, place the body on a bier pointing towards the door, and throw wild marjoram and other herbs on the body. As the women wait next to the body, the men enter the room with their right hand raised. The closest relative held the person's head, while the others beat their faces, tore their hair, cried and wailed, as well as leaving offerings such as wine.
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