Who’s Who in Thebes?
This character is the blind prophet who sees the truth about Oedipus.
Who is Tiresias?
Oedipus solves this to become king of Thebes.
What is the Sphinx’s riddle?
This city is the main setting for the tragedy. What is Thebes?
What is Thebes?
This creature’s riddle did Oedipus solve to become king of Thebes.
What is the Sphinx?
Oedipus is both son and husband to this character.
Who is Jocasta?
He is Oedipus’s wife and later revealed to be his mother.
Who is Jocasta?
Oedipus unknowingly fulfills the prophecy by killing this man at a crossroads.
Who is Laius?
Oedipus was abandoned as a baby on this mountain.
What is Mount Cithaeron?
Oedipus flees from this city to avoid fulfilling a prophecy.
What is Corinth?
This supposed father of Oedipus dies naturally, temporarily relieving Oedipus’s fears.
Who is King Polybus?
This man is Oedipus’s brother-in-law, accused of conspiracy by Oedipus.
Who is Creon?
Oedipus blinds himself after discovering this tragic truth.
What is that he married his mother and killed his father?
The citizens, led by this group of elders, express fear and comment on events.
Who is the Chorus?
This person delivers news that Polybus, Oedipus’s supposed father, has died.
Who is the messenger from Corinth?
Oedipus and Creon are related this way.
What is brothers-in-law?
This key witness survived the murder of King Laius and reveals Oedipus’s true parentage.
Who is the Herdsman (Shepherd)?
This plague strikes Thebes, prompting Oedipus to investigate.
What is a plague caused by divine pollution due to Laius’s murder?
Oedipus sends this relative to Delphi to consult Apollo’s oracle.
Who is Creon?
Oedipus blinds himself using these objects after discovering the truth.
What are Jocasta’s golden pins?
Oedipus’s children are also his ______ because of the prophecy.
What are his grandchildren? (or “offspring and siblings”)
This mythical creature posed a deadly riddle to Thebes and was defeated by Oedipus.
Who is the Sphinx?
Jocasta dies this way after learning the truth about Oedipus.
How does Jocasta commit suicide (hangs herself)?
These ceremonial items and actions (wreaths, altars, branches) are used by Thebes to appease the gods.
What are religious rituals?
"What walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?"
What is the Sphinx’s riddle?
Oedipus recalls killing a man and his attendants at this location, which he later realizes was his real father.
What is the crossroads?