Oedipus Terms Background

Question 0

Parados

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Opening song sing by chorus

Question 1

Prologue

Answer 1

Introduces background info and conflict

Question 2

Episodes

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Characters and chorus talk

Question 3

Stasimon/ode

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At the end of each episode ~characters leave stage and the Chris dances and sings a stasimon, or choral ode~summarizes info in episodes

Question 4

Odes have

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Alternating parts: strophe and antistrophe

Question 5

The rest of play alternated between episodes and stasima/ode

Answer 5

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Question 6

Exodus

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Final scene/ end of play

Question 7

Greeks know the play as

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Oedipus Tyrannus

~a ruler who became king thru merit not inheritance

Question 8

Play most widely know as

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Oedipus the Rex = king

Question 9

Play is part of a trilogy

Answer 9

Oedipus the king, Oedipus at colonus and Antigone

Question 10

Sigmund Freud

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Founder of psychoanalysis–theories about relation of conscious/unconscious process

Question 11

Oedipus Complex

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Sons desir for mother /// son competes w/ and resents father