Oedipus Flashcards
how many kids did jocasta have?
5
who officially revealed oedipus’s identiy for sure?
shepard
who took oedipus up the mountain?
shepard
who were oedipus’s real parents?
jocasta and lius
who was the author of oedipus?
sophocles
where was sophocles born?
colonus
when did sophocles win his first play writting award?
468 b.c. when he was 28
how many times did sophocles win 1st in play writting contests
no less than 18 times
plays written by sophocles?
123 but only 7 came to us
at the beginning of oedipus who is the ruler?
oedipus
oedipus is the king of what city?
thebes
what did his parents do to oedipus after hearing the prophecy?
drove pins into oedipus’s ankles and gave him to a shepard to take to mount cithaeron
who are oedipus’s adoptive parents? where were they from?
merope and polybus from corinth
what was terrorizing thebes?
the sphinx: bird, lion, woman
how do the people of thebes think lius was killed? why?
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
why does oedipus investigate lius’s death?
because whoever killed lius could also potentially harm him too
who first says that oedipus was the killer?
tirisius b/c eodipus said that he had planned lius’s death and even possibly killed him himself if he wasn’t blind
what is oedipus’s fatal flaw?
he has a temper and thinks alot of himself
what happens to jocasta?
finds who truth about oedipus, hangs herself
who is creon?
brother of jocasta, brother in law and uncle of oedipus
what must be done to lift the plague on thebes?
find the murderer of lius and punish them
what does oedipus was creon to do? what actually happens?
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
what oracle does creon go to to figure out what to do about the plague?
oracle at delphi
what does oedipus accuse creon of?
conspiring with tiriesias
what happens to oedipus in the end?
he is exilef from thebes
what does tiresias say will happen to oedipus?
he will leave thebes a blind beggar
what is the major conflict in oedipus?
when tiresias tells oedipus that he is the one responsible for the plaugue
what is the climax of oedipus?
when oedipus finds out he killed his dad and slept with him mom
what is the theme of oedipus?
The power of unwritten law, the willingness to ignore the truth, the limits of free will
