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Who is Oedipus' father?

Who is Laius.

100

What is a derelict?

What is a person abandoned from society.

100

Why does Antigone choose to go back to Thebes?

What is to stop the fighting between brothers.

100

Which god prophesied that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother?

Who was Apollo

100

What news does Ismene bring?

What is Polynices planned attack on Thebes.

200

Who wanders around with Oedipus?

Who is Antigone.

200

What is loll?

What is to lie down or lounge lazily.

200

Where is Oedipus soon headed?  Heralded by thunder and lightning.

What is the underworld.

200

Who signals the coming of Oedipus' death?

Who is Zeus.

200

What property of Oedipus gives his grave great power?

What is his great suffering.

300

Who does Creon attempt to kidnap?

Who are Antigone and Ismene.

300

What would be a small allowance?

What is a pittance

300

In what city did Oedipus grow up?

What is Corinth.
300

What creature lived in the hair of the Furies?

What are snakes.

300

How did Oedipus know his death was approaching?

What were lightning and thunder.

400

Which of Oedipus' sons takes over Thebes?

Who is Eteocles.

400

If you are pious to a degree that people may doubt your sincerity you might be...

What is unctuous.  

400

Only this man knows the place of Oedipus body?

Who is King Theseus.

400

The Theban chorus asks this god to take away their plague at the beginning of Oedipus the King.

Who is Artemis.

400

Which oracle says that Oedipus grave will win future wars?

Who is the oracle of Delphi.

500

What does Polynices request of Antigone?

What is a proper burial.
500

What does it mean to maunder?

What is to talk in a rambling way.

500

On which mountain was the infant Oedipus left to die?

What is Mount Cithaeron.

500

Who of the Furies is responsible for vengeance against patricide?

Who is Tisiphone.

500

Theseus is the king of Athens.  Who is the king of Colonus?

Who is Theseus.