The Oedipus Cycle

Question 1

Antigone (person)

Answer 1

niece to Creon, daughter/ sister and daughter to Oedipus

Question 2

Ismene

Answer 2

sister to Antigone/ sister and daughter to Oedipus

Question 3

Haimon

Answer 3

Creon’s son

Question 4

Eteocles

Answer 4

brother to Antigone/ son and brother to Oedipus

Question 5

Oedipus

Answer 5

Protagonist of first story, son and husband of Jocaste, father and brother to Iseme and Antigone, brother in law to Creon.

Question 6

Jocaste/Iocaste

Answer 6

Wife and Mother of Oedipus

Question 7

Creon

Answer 7

Protagonist, uncle to Antigone and Iseme, brother in law to Oedipus

Question 8

Eurydice

Answer 8

Creon’s wife (last words were cursing Creon)

Question 9

Tiresias

Answer 9

The blind prophet

Question 10

Theseus

Answer 10

leader of the Athens in the war

Question 11

Oedipus Rex

Answer 11

It follows the story of King Oedipus of Thebes as he discovers that he has unwittingly killed his own father, Laius, and married his own mother, Jocasta.

Question 12

Oedipus at Colonus

Answer 12

Oedipus undergoes a transformation from an abject beggar, banished from his city because of his sins, into a figure of immense power, capable of extending (or withholding) divine blessings.

Question 13

Antigone (the book)

Answer 13

The play is about Antigone’s disobedience of Creon’s rules when she insists on burying her brother, Polyneices. Antigone, Haemon, and Eurydice die at the end of the play, to Creon’s great distress. The play addresses themes of civil disobedience, morality, loyalty, authority, and gender.