Oedipus Flashcards
1
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Dodds - Riddles
A
Oedipus ‘cannot rest until he has solved all the riddles’
2
Q
Knox - yield
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Oedipus will ‘never yield to the point of self-destruction’
3
Q
Goldhill - paradox
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‘Oedipus is a paradox within himself, he is both a saviour and a monster’
4
Q
Higgins - sharing vicariously
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The audience is sharing vicariously in the horror of the reversals
5
Q
Seaford - new human
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Oedipus represents a new kind of human being, one who solves life’s mysteries with intelligence alone.
6
Q
Dodds - blindness of man
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Sophocles uses Oedipus’ character to make a larger point about the ‘blindness of man’ and how humanity is blind to fate.
7
Q
Bowra - women
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‘More interesting than Sophocles’ men are his women’
