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Vocabulary
100

The writer of the play Oedipus Rex

Who is Sophocles

100

This is how Oedipus becomes king of Thebes

He answers the Sphinx's riddle?

100

This man killed Laius.

Who is Oedipus? 

100

A message given by the gods

What is an oracle?

200

The city that Oedipus grew up in

What is Corinth

200

This man adopted Oedipus as a baby

Who is Polybus?

200

Oedipus was found like this as a babe

What is with his feet bound together?

200

The city where drama originated.

What is Athens?

300

The man that Oedipus killed

Who is Laius

300

What Oedipus finds out about Merope and Polybus

They aren't his real parents?

300

The riddle that Oedipus answered

What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?

300

The creature that held Thebes hostage with her riddles.

What is the Sphinx?

400

Oedipus killed his father and did this to his mother

What is married her

400

True or False: the Chorus is a character in the story.

What is True?

400

This is what Oedipus accuses Creon of

Trying to take over the throne.

400

Site of the oracle of the god Apollo.

What is Delphi?

500

Thebans believed this to be the reason for the city being cursed.

What is the murder of Laius?

500

Oedipus biological mother

Who is Jocasta

500

The name of the Blind Prophet 

Who is Teiresias?

500

 A force that ancient Greeks believed could not be avoided.

What is fate?

600

At the end of the tragedy, this happens to Oedipus.

What is he blinds himself and goes into exile.

600

This happened at the place where 3 roads meet.

Laius was killed?

600

This is the mountain that Oedipus's parents left him to die on.

What is Cithaeron?

600

The English meaning of hamartia.

What is 'a mistake/error?'