Oedipus Rex 1
The writer of the play Oedipus Rex
Who is Sophocles
The man that adopted Oedipus as a baby
Who is Polybus
Killed Laius.
Who is Oedipus?
Greek Theatre was created for this purpose.
What is celebrate religious festivals?
A message given by the gods
What is an oracle?
The city that Oedipus grew up in
What is Corinth
Oedipus becomes king of Thebes this way
What is he answers the Sphinx's riddle.
Oedipus was found like this as a babe
What is with his feet bound together?
The Greek god of fertility, pleasure, wine, & theatre.
Who is Dionysus?
The area that drama originated.
What is Athens?
The man that Oedipus killed
Who is Laius
What Oedipus finds out about Merope and Polybus
What is they aren't his real parents
The riddle that Oedipus answered
What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?
Was used to either sing or chant the script and would wear masks.
What is a Chorus?
The creature that heled Thebes hostage with her riddles.
What is the Sphinx?
Oedipus killed his father and did this to his mother
What is married her
Where Laius was when he was killed.
What is a place where 3 roads meet?
What Oedipus thinks about Creon after his talk with Teiresias.
What is that he's trying to take over the throne.
It is unknown if he was a playwright, an actor or a priest, but he has been credited for creating the “first actor”.
Who is Thespis?
Site of the oracle of the god Apollo.
What is Delphi?
Thebans believed this to be the reason for the city being cursed.
What is the murder of Laius?
Oedipus biological mother
Who is Jocasta
The Blind Prophet
Who is Teiresias?
Known as the master of comedy.
Who is Aristophanes?
A force that ancient Greeks believed could not be avoided.
What is fate?
At the end of the tragedy, this happens to Oedipus.
What is he blinds himself and goes into exile.
True or False: the Chorus is a character in the story.
What is True?
The main characters.
(You must get all of them to get the points)
Who Are...
Oedipus
Jocasta
Tieresias
Creon
The Chorus
Short plays performed between the acts of tragedies and made fun of the plight of the tragedy's characters.
Named after the mythical half-human, half-goat figures and actors in these plays wore large phalluses for comic effect.
What is a Satyr?
To give guidance and explain the natural world.
What is the purpose of the gods?