Characters/Places #1
Characters/Places #2
Characteristics of a Tragic Hero
O, Oedipus!
Themes
100
Where is Apollo's Oracle located?
What is Delphi
100
Who is killed at the crossroads?
Who is Lauis
100
Define Hubris
What is excessive/unrelenting pride
100
Why is it unusual that the Theban plays are often times read together?
What is Sophocles did not write them as a trilogy and they can be read/understand as individual plays
100
Give one example of how Oedipus tries to alter his prophecy
What is run from Corinth
200
They are the voice of the people of Thebes
Who is the Chorus
200
Who is the author of the Theban Plays?
Who is Sophocles
200
Define harmartia
What is a fatal flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero
200

Which play was probably written last?

What is Oedipus at Colonus

200
What is Oedipus' last act of free will
What is self-inflicted blindness
300
Who is Oedipus' adopted mother?
Who is Merope
300
This is where Oedipus was left to die
What is Mt. Cithaeron
300
What is Oedipus' catastrophic end?
Not death but self-inflicted blindness
300
What is the meaning of Oedipus' name and how did it originate?
What is swollenfeet. His ankles were pinned as a baby on Mt. Cithaeron
300
The chorus states, "You are my great example, you, your life your destiny, Oedipus, man of misery---I count no man blest. This is an example of which theme?
What is fate. Oedipus couldn't change it
400
This is where Oedipus was raised
What is Corinth
400
Who says, "A prophet? Well then, free youself of every charge!"
Who is Jocasta
400
List three of Oedipus' extrordinary abilities
What is intelligence, leadership, and pro-active
400
Define dramatic irony and give one example from "Oedipus the King"
What is when the audience knows something that the characters do not. We know that Polybus and Merope are not his real parents. We know that Jocasta is his mother. We know that he(Oedipus) killed Lauis at the crossroads.
400
Who is Tiresius and why is his character important to the play?
Who is the blind prophet. Tiresius is physically blind but can see the truth throughout the entire play.
500
Who says, "Not I, I'm not the man to yearn for kingship…"
Who is Creon
500
Who is the one lone survivor at the crossroads?
Who is the slave? (shepherd #1)
500
List five events in order that lead to Oedipus' catastrophic end.
What is the plague of the city----Apollo's instructions to find the murderer of Lauis----Tiresius' confrontation----shepherd/messagers testimony----realizes prophecy is true----Jocasta's death----self-inflicted blindness
500
Oedipus states to Tiresius, "It does but not for you old man. You've lost your power, stone-blind, stone-deaf---senses, eyes as blind as stones." Which logical fallacy is represented?
What is ad homenium
500

What is Oedipus' connection to the riddle of the Sphinx in connection to Tiresius' line on page 185?

Native Theban - Unsure of his birth (4 legs)

Solves the riddle/King/ Prime of his life (2 legs)

Fulfills prophecy/ Gouges out his eyes / exiled uses a walking stick (3 legs)

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