Oedipus Flashcards
What son of Laius…
Oedipus
What mother of Oedipus…
Jocasta
What man, exposed on mount Cithaeron?
oedipus
What couple raised Oedipus?
merope and Polybus
According to an alternate story, what man was put into a chest as an infant and flung into the sea?
Oedipus
What man named swollen foot…
Oedipus
At cleft way…
oedipus
The wheel of a chariot grazing his foot…
Oedipus
On mount Phicium…
Oedipus or the sphinx
The last victim being Haemon…
Sphinx
Who reported having seeing the dead bodies of Laius etc?
Damasistratus
Children of Oedipus?
Polynices, Eteocles, Ismene, and Antigone
Who are Oedipus’s children alternatively said to be mothered by?
Euryganeia
What happened that caused Creon to find out Laius’s murderer was among them?
a plague hit the city
Jabbing out his eyes with a brooch…
Oedipus
With what did Oedipus jab out his eyes?
Jocasta’s brooch
What seer revealed the whole Oedipus thing?
Teiresias
What daughter accompanied Oedipus…
Antigone
Argeia, Amphiaraus, and Mecisteus attended the funeral of what man?
Oedipus
When creon tried to kidnap Oedipus, who prevented him from doing so?
Theseus
Where did Oedipus die?
at colonus
