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Oedipus Rex Flashcards

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Anagnorisis

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Aha moment

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Episode

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Point in Greek tragedy that falls between two chorus songs

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Pathos

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Feeling of sympothy in audience

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Hubris

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Excessive self-confidence

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Catharsis

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Emotional cleansing

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Hamartia

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Tragic flaw

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Miasma

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Difficulty to breathe in unwholesome atmosphere

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Sated

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Satisfy (a desire or appetite)

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Clairvoyant

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A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future

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Autocratic

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Ruling with absolute power

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Deference

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Humble submission and respect

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Transgress

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Go beyond the bounds of/ crossing the line

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Piety

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The quality of being religious or reverent

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Vigil

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Keeping awake during the night

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Calamity

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A disaster

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Impasse

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Narrow road, only one way in or out

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Edict

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Official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority

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Desolate

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Alone and without hope

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Regicide

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Act of murdering a king

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Pestilence

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A fatal epidemic disease

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21
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All the plays in Ancient Greece were produced in

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Athens

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Two ways we know about these plays are through

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Actual text and ancient sources

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How many plays survived

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30

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Plays honored the god

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What was the prize for winning playwrite

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Your name would be inscribed in stone

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Three types of drama

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Tragedy, comedy, satyr

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Tragedy

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Upper class / beautiful masks

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Comedy

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Lower class / ugly masks

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Satyr

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Rude plays / comic relief

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What is a satyr

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A creature that was half man half goat

Promiscuous behavior

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Three tragedians

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Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (lived in 5th century B.C.)

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Traditional Greek theater was

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Open air (no roof)

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Masks were worn by actors because

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It was part of the religious ritual and it allowed actors to play different parts

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The chorus was for

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Fun and providing the perspective of the community

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Greek tragedy is fundementally

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Political because of the interaction between us and he top characters

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Greek tragedy transcends culture and time because of its

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Universal themes

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We still have difficulty with our

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Relationships

38
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We still have to make

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Difficult decisions

39
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We still have to deal with the

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Unfairness of the universe

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The Greek philosopher that cake up with the formula for a tragic hero

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The formula is

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Heroes have to be good but also make mistakes

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Strongest metaphor in Greek tragedy is

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Play starts with

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Prologue and then next the chorus

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The action of a play takes place within

45
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Plays allow us to

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Reflect on our own lives

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Oedipus means

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Swollen feet

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Rex means

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Two cities in story

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Corinth and Thebes

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Oedipus’s birth parents

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Laius and Jacosta

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Oedipus’s adopted parents

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Polybus and merope

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Creon

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Jacostas brother

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Tiresias

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Blind prophet

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The oedipus stories are

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Not in order

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Why did the Greeks attend watching these plays if they already knew the story

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To see how the events unfolded, extraordinary writing

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Sophocles wrote how many plays and how many survived?

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123, only 7 survived

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Characteristics of the protagonist

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Person of noble birth and stature, has a flaw, becomes isolated, their fall is usually not their fault

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Hubris

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Excessive pride

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Chorus consists of

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12-15 masked people

59
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Crossroads symbolize

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Choice

Three way: past present future

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