Classical Reference Library
Sophocles is one of the great playwrights of ancient Greek tragedy, known for dramas that explore law, conscience, leadership, family duty, fate, pride, and moral responsibility. This collection brings together teaching guides, student resources, discussion questions, background materials, and other tools for studying Sophocles’ plays, including Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Women of Trachis.
ANTIGONE • QUIZ & ANSWER KEY
A classroom assessment for Sophocles’ Antigone combining reading comprehension, literary interpretation, and evidence-based short response. Includes 24 questions and a teacher answer key with explanations and guidance for evaluating interpretive responses.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • WORKSHEET PACK
Six flexible classroom worksheets for Sophocles’ Antigone, focusing on competing obligations, decisions and consequences, listening and leadership, character analysis, turning points, and final synthesis. Designed to develop evidence-based interpretation rather than simple plot recall.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • WRITING & ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS
A graduated collection of writing assignments for Sophocles’ Antigone, ranging from focused analytical paragraphs to literary analysis, argumentative essays, and advanced college-level prompts. Includes guidance for developing strong arguments and an optional essay-planning framework.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • STUDENT GUIDE
A clear student guide to Sophocles’ Antigone, with essential background, character orientation, a reading roadmap, key conflicts, guidance for understanding the Chorus, questions to carry through the play, and a quick review checklist.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • CHARACTER GUIDE
A student-friendly guide to the major characters in Sophocles’ Antigone, examining their roles, motivations, relationships, conflicts, and development throughout the tragedy. Includes a cast-at-a-glance reference, detailed character profiles, important relationships, key contrasts, and questions to guide close reading.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
A collection of open-ended discussion questions for Sophocles’ Antigone, organized around the progression of the play. Designed for close reading, whole-class conversation, small-group work, Socratic seminar, and written preparation, the questions move from Antigone’s opening decision through the final consequences of Creon’s actions.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • VOCABULARY & GLOSSARY
A student-friendly reference to essential vocabulary for reading and discussing Sophocles’ Antigone. Covers Greek dramatic form, religious and burial practices, law and civic authority, and useful language for analyzing character and conflict, with explanations of how important terms apply to the play.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • THEMES GUIDE
An accessible guide to six major themes in Sophocles’ Antigone: divine and human law, family and the state, authority and leadership, pride and inflexibility, gender and power, and wisdom through suffering. Includes points to watch while reading, questions for analysis, and a concluding examination of how the themes intersect.
Read resource →ANTIGONE • TEACHER GUIDE
A practical guide to teaching Sophocles’ Antigone, with essential background, character guidance, dramatic structure, central themes, close-reading scenes, a flexible seven-class sequence, discussion questions, writing assignments, and guidance for teaching the tragic ending.
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