Oedipus Characters
This man killed Laius.
Who is Oedipus?
The writer of the play Oedipus Rex
Who is Sophocles
This is how Oedipus becomes king of Thebes
He answers the Sphinx's riddle?
A message given by the gods
What is an oracle?
This man adopted Oedipus as a baby
Who is Polybus?
The city that Oedipus grew up in
What is Corinth
Oedipus was found like this as a babe
What is with his feet bound together?
The city where drama originated.
What is Athens?
The man that Oedipus killed
Who is Laius
The riddle that Oedipus answered
What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?
Oedipus killed his father and did this to his mother
What is married her
The creature that held Thebes hostage with her riddles.
What is the Sphinx?
What Oedipus finds out about Merope and Polybus
They aren't his real parents?
This is what Oedipus accuses Creon of
Trying to take over the throne.
True or False: the Chorus is a character in the story.
What is True?
Site of the oracle of the god Apollo.
What is Delphi?
Oedipus biological mother
Who is Jocasta
At the end of the tragedy, this happens to Oedipus.
What is he blinds himself and goes into exile.
Thebans believed this to be the reason for the city being cursed.
What is the murder of Laius?
A force that ancient Greeks believed could not be avoided.
What is fate?
The name of the Blind Prophet
Who is Teiresias?
This is the mountain that Oedipus's parents left him to die on.
What is Cithaeron?
This happened at the place where 3 roads meet.
Laius was killed?
The English meaning of hamartia.
What is 'a mistake/error?'