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Oedipus Review
100

Ismene and Eteocles are ___________

Siblings

100
Why did Creon believe that Polyneices was a traitor?
He attacked his own city
100
Why doesn't Ismene want to help Antigone at the beginning of the play?
Ismene is afraid of Creon's law/punishment
100
I will carry her far away
Out there in the wilderness, and lock her
Living in a vault of stone.
Creon
100

Who are Oedipus & Jocasta's children?

Eteocles, Polynieces, Antigone, and Ismene.

200
Eurydice is Haimon's __________
Mother
200

What was the original penalty for burying Polyneices' body?

Public execution

200
Why doesn't Antigone let Ismene die with her?
Ismene doesn't deserve an honorable death because she didn't help bury Polyneices
200

But now I know what you meant; and I am here to join you, to take my share of the punishment.

Ismene

200

Why is baby Oedipus sent away from his home?

His parents hear that he will kill his father and marry his mother.

300
Antigone plans to marry Haimon, who is also her ________
Cousin
300
Why does Creon believe that locking Antigone in a cave will "absolve the State of her death"?
He isn't actually *killing* her
300

Why did Polyneices and Eteocles kill each other?

They fought to be the new King of Thebes. Eteocles was the rightful heir, and Polyneices attacked Thebes. So, they fought to the death.

300

Your edict, king, was strong, but all your strength is weakness against the immortal unrecorded laws of God.

Antigone

300

What does Oedipus do when his mother/wife hangs herself?

Gouges his eyes out.

400
Creon was Polyneices' _____________
Uncle
400

When the sentry notifies Creon that someone has buried Polyneices, who does Creon immediately blame?

The sentry

400
How is Antigone caught burying Polyneices?
The guards dust off the body, and Antigone re-buries it.
400

I have heard them muttering and whispering in the dark about this girl. They say no woman has ever, so unreasonably, died so shameful a death for such a generous act.

Haimon

400

Why does Oedipus leave Corinth and travel back towards Thebes?

He learns of his prophecy to kill his father and marry his mother. He believes that the king+queen of Corinth are his real parents, so he flees Corinth to avoid fulfilling this fate.

500
Oedipus was Antigone's father and _____________
(half) brother
500
When Haimon tries to convince Creon to free Antigone, what does Creon threaten to do in order to teach Haimon a lesson?
Kill Antigone right in front of Haimon.
500
What were Creon's decrees about each brother's body?
Eteocles: buried/honored as a hero Polyneices: body will be left to rot
500

The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh for flesh. You have denied the dead a grave, and this is your crime.

Tiresias

500
How does Oedipus' kill his father?
Road rage
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