Monday, January 12, 2009

A Tragic Affair

There was a joke going around when I was a classics major about what one Greek tailor said to another:

"Euripides, Eumenides!" (you have to say it with a faux Greek accent to get it)

Ha, ha, ha.

Apparently, earlier this week, Mama woke up totally stressed that she couldn't remember the ancient Greek play about the woman who buried her brother. 1. Can you guess? (see answers below). 2. And who wrote that play? 3. But don't get it confused with the play about the woman sacrified so Agamemnon's fleet could sail. 4. And who wrote that? 5. The woman was a sister of Orestes, but that tragic cycle was written by . . . ? 6. And what was their sister's name?

Confused yet? Don't let it keep you awake . . .

  1. Antigone
  2. Sophocles
  3. Iphigenia
  4. Euripides
  5. Aeschylus
  6. Electra

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