Oedipus Rex 1
The writer of the play Oedipus Rex
Who is Sophocles?
The man that adopted Oedipus as a baby
Who is Polybos?
Killed Laios.
Who is Oedipus?
Greek Theatre was created for this purpose.
What is celebrate religious festivals?
A disastrous evil like a disease or curse
What is a plague?
The city that Oedipus grew up in
What is Corinth?
Oedipus becomes king of Thebes this way
What is solves the riddle of the Sphinx?
Done to Oedipus as a baby
What is abandoned with his feet pierced?
The Greek god of fertility, pleasure, wine, & theatre.
Who is Dionysus?
Prediction of what's to come
What is a prophecy?
The man that Oedipus killed
Who is Laios?
How Oedipus finds out Merope and Polybus aren't his real parents
What is the drunk guy at a party?
The riddle that Oedipus answered
What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?
Includes 15-50 people to sing or chant Odes commenting on the action of the play and remain on stage watching.
What is a Chorus?
A small room or monument for a dead body; a tomb
What is a sepulcher?
Oedipus married his mother and did this to his father
What is kill him?
Where Laios was killed.
What is where 3 roads meet? (a crossroad)
What Oedipus thinks about Creon after his talk with Teiresias.
What is that he's trying to take over the throne? (treason)
Used to identify characters as male or female, young or old, grief-stricken or hopeful with a mouth opening used to increase the volume of the actor's voice.
What are masks?
Going about in search of things to steal or people to attack
What is marauding?
The cause of the plague on Thebes
What is the murder of Laios?
Where Oedipus was abandoned as a baby and where he wants to be banished to.
What is Kithairon?
The Blind Oracle
Who is Teiresias?
The sound of a dying goat
What is tragedy?
To press with requests or demands; to crowd around and harass.
What is besiege?
At the end of the tragedy, this happens to Oedipus.
What is he blinds himself and goes into exile?
The site of the oracle of Apollo
What is Delphi?
The five main characters.
(You must get all of them to get the points)
Who Are...
Oedipus
Jocasta
Teiresias
Creon
Choragos?
Unity of Action
Unity of Time
Unity of Place
What are the Three Unities?
A Greek concept meaning "excessive pride/confidence" likely to anger the Gods
What is hubris?