Oedipus

Question 1

how many kids did jocasta have?

Answer 1

5

Question 2

who officially revealed oedipus’s identiy for sure?

Answer 2

shepard

Question 3

who took oedipus up the mountain?

Answer 3

shepard

Question 4

who were oedipus’s real parents?

Answer 4

jocasta and lius

Question 5

who was the author of oedipus?

Answer 5

sophocles

Question 6

where was sophocles born?

Answer 6

colonus

Question 7

when did sophocles win his first play writting award?

Answer 7

468 b.c. when he was 28

Question 8

how many times did sophocles win 1st in play writting contests

Answer 8

no less than 18 times

Question 9

plays written by sophocles?

Answer 9

123 but only 7 came to us

Question 10

at the beginning of oedipus who is the ruler?

Answer 10

oedipus

Question 11

oedipus is the king of what city?

Answer 11

thebes

Question 12

what did his parents do to oedipus after hearing the prophecy?

Answer 12

drove pins into oedipus’s ankles and gave him to a shepard to take to mount cithaeron

Question 13

who are oedipus’s adoptive parents? where were they from?

Answer 13

merope and polybus from corinth

Question 14

what was terrorizing thebes?

Answer 14

the sphinx: bird, lion, woman

Question 15

how do the people of thebes think lius was killed? why?

Answer 15

by a large band of robbers. b/c the guy who escaped didn’t want to be embaressed by saying only one man did all the damage

Question 16

why does oedipus investigate lius’s death?

Answer 16

because whoever killed lius could also potentially harm him too

Question 17

who first says that oedipus was the killer?

Answer 17

tirisius b/c eodipus said that he had planned lius’s death and even possibly killed him himself if he wasn’t blind

Question 18

what is oedipus’s fatal flaw?

Answer 18

he has a temper and thinks alot of himself

Question 19

what happens to jocasta?

Answer 19

finds who truth about oedipus, hangs herself

Question 20

who is creon?

Answer 20

brother of jocasta, brother in law and uncle of oedipus

Question 21

what must be done to lift the plague on thebes?

Answer 21

find the murderer of lius and punish them

Question 22

what does oedipus was creon to do? what actually happens?

Answer 22

he begs creon to kill him but creon waits to see what the oracle of apollo says because he thinks its up to the gods to decide his fate

Question 23

what oracle does creon go to to figure out what to do about the plague?

Answer 23

oracle at delphi

Question 24

what does oedipus accuse creon of?

Answer 24

conspiring with tiriesias

Question 25

what happens to oedipus in the end?

Answer 25

he is exilef from thebes

Question 26

what does tiresias say will happen to oedipus?

Answer 26

he will leave thebes a blind beggar

Question 27

what is the major conflict in oedipus?

Answer 27

when tiresias tells oedipus that he is the one responsible for the plaugue

Question 28

what is the climax of oedipus?

Answer 28

when oedipus finds out he killed his dad and slept with him mom

Question 29

what is the theme of oedipus?

Answer 29

The power of unwritten law, the willingness to ignore the truth, the limits of free will