Sophocles Flashcards
Philoctetes has the bow of
Heracles
Odysseus leaves Philoctetes on Lemnos for ten years because
A snake bit his foot and the foot emitted a horrible smell
The Greeks require Philoctetes
to win the war
Fails to convince Philoctetes to return to Troy
Neoptolemus, son of Achilles
Convinces Philoctetes to return to Troy, as his wound will heal if he does
Heracles (as a deity)
In the Trojan War, Philoctetes kills
Paris
Philoctetes plays with themes of
moral high ground
Causes Ajax to go mad
Achilles’ armor being awarded to Odysseus
Athena fools Ajax into thinking sheep and a ram are the Greek soldiers and he
Tortures the ram, thinking it is Odysseus
Before committing suicide, Ajax
calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus
Recounts death of Clytemnestra
Electra
Antigone buries Polyneices because
Creon only allowed Eteocles to be buried
Ismene
Antigone’s sister, refuses to help with burial
Before Creon can stop Antigone’s death sentence, she
hangs herself
Haemon
Creon’s son, kills himself
Eurydice
Creon’s wife, kills herself
Although the Gods punish the proud, punishment brings wisdom
End of Antigone
Heracles’ wife
Deianeira
Nessus
Centaur killed by Heracles
Nessus says his blood will
keep Heracles in love with Deianeira
Deianeira is upset because
Heracles is neglecting his family
Heracles is killed by a poison shirt in
Women of Trachis
Oedipus kills his father ___ and marries his mother ____.
Laius; Jocasta
Oedipus is sent to die as a child because Laius feared
that his son would kill him.
