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The literal meaning of Oedipus's name.
What is "swollen feet"?
The current plight of Thebes at the beginning of Oedipus Rex.
What is a plague?
The blind seer of Thebes.
Who is Tiresias?
The term for when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
The usual plot archetype Oedipus Rex falls under.
What is tragedy?
The queen of Thebes and Oedipus's wife.
Who is Jocasta?
The deaths involved with the issue.
What are the cattle and women?
The dreaded prophecy in Oedipus Rex.
What is slaying one's father and bedding one's mother?
The events that took place after Oedipus fled to avoid the prophecy.
What is killing his real father and marrying his mother?
A collective character group who express public views.
Who is the Chorus?
Brother to the queen and king by the play's end.
Who is Creon?
The past plight of Thebes in Oedipus Rex.
What is the Sphinx?
The true relationship of Jocasta to Oedipus.
What is his mother?
The outcome for Creon, who was accused of conspiracy against Oedipus the Theban king.
What is becoming the king after Oedipus's fall?
The playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex.
Who is Sophocles?
The old man Oedipus "civilly" met during his flight to Thebes.
Who is Laius, his biological father?
The Greek god who is punishing Thebes in the play.
Who is Apollo?
The city from which Oedipus fled to avoid fulfilling the prophecy.
Where is Corinth?
Tiresias's ability and his condition.
What is seeing the truth while being literally blind?
The Greek god of theater, for whose festival Oedipus Rex was written in a competition.
Who is Dionysus, main character in The Bacchae?
The foster parents of Oedipus during his youth.
Who are Polybus and Merope?
Oedipus's fate at the play's end.
What is self-imposed exile?
Whose death is good news for Oedipus and the prophecy?
Who is Polybus?
The reason Oedipus thinks Jocasta is upset with him when he discovers he was adopted.
What is presumed poverty and slavery?
The purpose of theater, according to Aristotle.
What is catharsis?