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Oedipus and Myths of Thebes Flashcards

1
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What line is the local founding and what line is the foreign founding?

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Chtonius (local), Cadmus (foreign)

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What was Cadmus looking for when he went to an oracle?

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His sister Europa.

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What did the oracle tell Cadmus to do?

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Follow a cow and build a city where it lies down.

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4
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What does Cadmus do with the dragon’s teeth?

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Instructed by Athena to take some of the teeth and plant them.

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What are the Spartoi

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The 5 that survive the dragon’s teeth sowing and becomes the 5 lines of aristocrasts of Thebes.

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How does the Labdacus name come to Thebes?

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Cthonius marries daughter of local Theban family and Labdacus name descends from him.

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Who is Labdacus’ son?

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Laius

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What does Laius due while under King Pelop’s hospitality?

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Laius abducts and rapes Pelop’s son Chrysippus. Pelops curses the line of Labdacus.

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What does the oracle tell Laius?

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That his son will kill him?

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What does Jocasta do when Laius refuses to have sex with her?

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Gets Laius drunk, and gets pregnant with Oedipus.

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What do Jocasta and Laius do when Oedipus is born?

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Oedipus has his feet pinned and is given to a Theban shepherd to be left on Mt. Cithaeron.

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What does the Theban shepherd do with Oedipus?

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Gives him to the Corinth shepherd to be raised by the King and Queen of Corinth.

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Who raises Oedipus, and what is their status?

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Raised by King and Queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope.

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Why does Oedipus go to an oracle?

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Being teased that he was adopted.

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What does the oracle tell Oedipus?

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That he will kill his father and marry his mother.

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16
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What monster is terrorizing Thebes?

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A Sphinx

17
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What does Oedipus do after he receives the oracles phophecy? Who does he run into?

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Oedipus won’t let the prophecy come true, and leaves for Thebes. He is angered by a chariot and kills the inhabitants including his father.

18
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What is the reward for solving the Sphinx’s riddle?

A

The throne and marriage to Jocasta

19
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Who solves the riddle of the Sphinx?

A

Oedipus

20
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What are the names of the children of Oedipus and Jocasta?

A

Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polynices

21
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Who wrote the plays of Oedipus?

A

Sophocles

22
Q

What is the written order of the Oedipus plays?

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  1. Antigone - daughter of Oedipus
  2. Oedipus Tyra
  3. Oedipus at Colonus
23
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How does Oedipus Tyra begin?

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Oedipus is king, and the people are plagued by the mysterious death of Laius.

24
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What does Oedipus promise to his citizens?

A

That he will find the murderer.

25
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Who does Oedipus call for to find the murderer?

A

Tiresias

26
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What does Oedipus do when he realizes that he has fulfilled the prophecy?

A

Blinds himself

27
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What is Oedipus at Colonus about?

A

Oedipus as a blind beggar?

28
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What is the prophecy related to Oedipus death?

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Where the bones of Oedipus are buried shall never fall to war.

29
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How does Oedipus end?

A

He is swallowed into the ground.

30
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Who are the two sons of Oedipus that take over the kingdom?

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Eteocles and Polynices.

31
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Who becomes king and won’t give it up?

A

Eteocles

32
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What does Polynices do when he can’t get the throne

A

Goes to Argos and Adrastus allows him to marry his daughter.

33
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What does Wife of Adrastus forsee?

A

That 7 of them will go and only 1 will return.

34
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What happens in the battle of Polynices and Eteocles?

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Eteocles tries to strip Polynices armor, and is mortally wounded. Both die.

35
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What is the oracle’s prophecy related to Thebes?

A

That if one of the spartoi is sacrificed Thebes shall not fall. Menoecius sacrifices himself.

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