Parodos

Question 1

this chorus song is basically

Answer 1

(a prayer to the gods) (haven’t heard Creon’s news)

Question 2

what do they address

Answer 2

Addresses Zeus’s welcome voice, what word do you bring from Delphi

Question 3

Who do they worship and what do they wonder

Answer 3

I worship you, Apollo, in dread
What is your price, some new sacrifice (Oedipus)
What will you bring to birth (Oedipus’s secret)

Question 4

Who do they call on

Answer 4

Calls on Athena, Artemis, Apollo, glorifying them and requesting their help,
If ever in the past you stopped some ruin
You gods, come now, come once more

Question 5

The miseries

Answer 5

Numberless miseries, too much to bear, we are all dying
Thebes like a great army dying
Children dead in the womb, fruit of the earth won’t ripen (no future generations)
Life compared to seabirds, horizon streaking on the shores of evening
Death, so many deaths, numberless deaths on deaths.
Thebes is dying, generations strewn on the ground, unburied, unwept, dead spreading death
City of the deaths
Suffering rises, wails for mercy rise
Wild hymns for the Healer clash with the sobs and cries of mourning.
Athena, send rescue

Question 6

Ask the gods for help

Answer 6

Drive back the God of death, the God of war (it’s not Ares though)
Athena rout him from our border
Zeus, thunder Death to nothing
Apollo shower arrows on our enemies
Artemis ride Death down in pain
Dionysus, your name and ours are one (Theban mother, first place where he was worshiped, Great Dionysia) your raving women’s cries, your army on the March!
Burn that God of death that all gods hate.