1. A bull or a goat is given for dancing choruses of worshipers.
2. Fourteen thousand spectators would gather in the open-air theatre of Dionysos.
3. The mask affects the voices of actors in that it made their voices sound louder.
4. Antigone was suspenseful to viewing audiences because the audience already knew her story. Even though the audience tried to warn the characters, they still saw her doing the same thing.
5. The shepherd was to leave the infant to die on the mountainside.
6. The riddle that 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 Antigone, Ismene, Polyneices, and Eteocles.
8. After Oedipus is exiled, Creon takes over Thebes.
9. Families closed 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. While the women wait next to the body, the men enter the room with their right hand raised and the closest relative holds 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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