Oedipus
Mythological Characters
Odyssey
Trojan War
People, terms, facts
100
The reason King Laius abandoned his newborn son on a mountaintop.
What is because it was foretold that he would be killed by his own son?
100
Messenger god, son of Zeus, "master thief."
Who is Hermes?
100
This character turns Odysseus and his men into pigs.
Who is Circe?
100
How Achilles defiles the corpse of Hector.
What is he drags it around behind his chariot?
100
A long narrative poem that tells the adventures of heroes.
What is an epic?
200
The reason Oedipus left his (adoptive) father King Polybus.
What is because it was foretold that he would kill his own father?
200
Wife of Zeus, protector of marriage.
Who is Hera?
200
This character tells Odysseus: "don't eat the cattle of the sun god!"
Who is Teiresias?
200
Paris chose this goddess to win the golden apple.
Who is Aphrodite?
200
What we feel for characters in tragedy who don't deserve their fates.
What is pity?
300
What is the riddle of the Sphinx? (and the answer)
What is "what goes on 4 legs in the morning, 2 at noon, and 3 in the evening?" MAN
300
Sun god, archer, god of light.
Who is Apollo?
300
Name two of the three female monsters Odysseus and his men encounter on their sea voyage.
Who are the Sirens, Scylla, and/or Charybdis?
300
Homer's other famous work that tells story of the Trojan War.
What is The Iliad?
300
Author of Oedipus Rex.
Who is Sophocles?
400
Explain one way Oedipus shows his anger toward another character.
What is 1) curses and threatens Teiresias the blind prophet, 2) threatens Creon, his brother-in-law, because of his own paranoia, OR 3) needlessly kills the men in the carriage at the crossroads?
400
Daughter of Zeus, born wearing armor, friend to Odysseus.
Who is Athena?
400
Odysseus's son.
Who is Telemachus?
400
Husband of the "fairest woman in the world."
Who is Menelaus?
400
Approximate date of Homer's Odyssey.
What is 1,000 BC?
500
Which characters are dead or wounded at the end of the play AND how?
What is -- Oedipus has blinded himself; Jocasta has hanged herself?
500
This husband and wife rule the Underworld.
Who are Hades and Persephone?
500
Describe the way in which Penelope will decide who her new husband will be.
She devises a test with Odysseus's bow: to shoot an arrow through 12 iron sockets.
500
How Odysseus tried to avoid fighting in the Trojan War.
What is he pretended to be insane.
500
In tragedy, a welling up and releasing of emotion that leaves one feeling lightened, as if a burden has been lifted.
What is purgation or catharsis?
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