Oedipus Contexts + Terms Flashcards
WHEN was Oedipus set? 🖐️
5th Century Athens
DEFINE thymos 🦁
Passion/Motivation/Drive
WHAT is the moment when eveything suddenly goes wrong called? 🍗🌶️🦮
Peripeteia
WHAT is the Ancient Greek term for fate? 👩🏻/🫵🏾
Moira
DEFINE Hubris ⚡️
Excessive pride towards the Gods/Defiance
WHAT is the term for family in Greek theatre? 👨👩👧
Philoi 🤗
WHAT were attitudes to prophecy like during this time ➕ WHY? 🍗🌶️
5 CENT ATHENS =
Speculation ⬆️⬆️ towards their validity due to FAKE oracles in Sparta to remove Pericles from power
WHAT did Sophocles think about the Gods? ✝️
He was a religious man who believed in the power of the Gods Will
WHAT are the 1️⃣3️⃣ parts to an Ancient Greek play + in Oedipus?
1) Stage Directions
-Background info up
2) Prologue
-Oedipus introduces himself up to Creon finishing telling him about the Laius’ ☠️
3) Parados
-1st Choral song (entrance song)
-Theban elders praying to various Gods
4) 1st Episode/Scene
-Oedipus’ proclamation to O&Ts agon
5) 1st Stasimon/Choral Ode
-Chorus is confused but side with Oedipus (saved them from Sphinx)
6) 2nd Episode/Scene
-Oedipus accuses Creon
- Jocasta tells Oedipus of Baby
- Oedipus calls for the Shepherd
7) 2nd Staismon/Choral Ode
- Chorus sings on the foolishness of avoiding fate
8) 3rd Episode
- Jocasta prays to Apollos altar that Oedipus will ❌ thinking about past
-A messenger comes and says Polybus ☠️ + Oedipus = ❌ son
- He elaborates and Jocasta realises
9) 3rd Stasimon
- Chorus = questions parentage + birth
10) 4th Episode
-The shepherd arrives + admits the baby was Lauis’ + ❌ kill it
- Oedipus realises
11) 4th Stasimon
- Chorus sing how fate is unavoidable and wish they never met Oedipus
12) 5th Episode
- A second messenger tells to people how Jocasta hung herself and Oedipus = blinded
- The chorus say he should’ve killed himself
- Oedipus blames fate on Apollo but self for blindness
- Creon brings Antigone & Ismene to comfort but Oedipus asks to be exiled
13) Exodus
- The chorus sing lamentations to the citizens of Thebes + how there’s only happiness in death
WHAT is the term for the moment of realisation for the character?
Anagnorisis
WHAT is ‘truth’?
Aléthia
When and where was Oedipus performed?
429 BCE Athens
Why might an Ancient audience perceive this version of Oedipus differently? 🐍🦸🏼♂️
In the Ancient world Oedipus was most well known for the Sphinx. He was seen a hero.
What (Ancient) anxiety does the story of Oedipus resonate with? 👨👧👦
Paternal replacement anxiety
