Study Guide CLT 3378 Final Exam Oedipus Oedipus A Greek hero two mortal parents B Oedipus Parents Laios and Jocasta 1 King and queen of Thebes 2 Childless C Delphic oracle to Laios son by Jocasta will kill father Laios D Delphic oracle oracle of Apollo at Delphi E Laios gets drunk gets Jocasta pregnant 1 Oedipus is born F Laios pierces baby s ankles with metal pins 1 Oedipus cannot craw G Gives baby to shepherd to expose on mountain H Shepherd gives baby to Merope and Polybos king of Corinth I Merope names baby Oedipus 1 Oed swollen pous foot J As young man Oedipus taunted for being illegitimate baby K Delphic oracle to Oedipus kill father marry mother L Oedipus leaves Corinth to save parents 1 Does not want prophecy to come true M At crossroads Oedipus kills 1 Old Man Laios 2 Kills all servants but one N Comes to Thebes Creon is king O Sphinx terrorizes Thebes 1 Sphinx monster from Near Eastern myth 2 Head of woman body of lion wings of bird P Sphinx s riddle What has one voice but four legs then two legs then three legs Q Will leave Thebes when riddle solved 1 Eats losers 2 Oedipus solves riddle 3 Sphinx jumps to her death R Creon rewards Oedipus kingship and Jocasta S Oedipus and Jocasta have children 1 Sons Eteocles Polyneices 2 Daughters Antgone Ismene Laios Jocasta Thebes 1 King of Thebes 2 Father of Oedipus 1 Queen of Thebes 2 Mother and Wife of Oedipus 3 Children with Oedipus 1 Sons Eteocles Polyneices 2 Daughters Antigone Ismene A Oedipus s hometown B King Laios Queen Jocasta 1 Creon is King upon Laios s death 2 Then Oedipus is rewarded King for defeating Sphinx Delphic oracle A Oracle of Apollo at Delphie B Tells prophecy of Laios s son killing him and marrying Jacosta C Tells prophecy to Oedipus Delphi Merope Polybos Corinth Creon Sphinx A Place where Delphic oracle lived A Queen of Corinth B Responsible for naming Oedipus A King of Corinth B Raises Oedipus A Greek City where Oedipus grows up A King of Thebes after Laios is killed A Monster from Near Eastern myths B Head of woman body of lion wings of bird C Terrorizes Thebes D Gives Oedipus Riddle 1 Oedipus solves riddle 2 Sphinx jumps to death Sophocles A Athenian tragedian Sophocles c 496 406 BCE 1 Wrote over 120 plays we have 7 known to man B Wrote Oedipus the King 1 c 420s BCE Oedipus the King A Written by Sophocles 420s BCE B Plague in Thebes C King Oedipus wants to detect why there is a plague D Oracle gives reason 1 Thebes polluted 2 Drive the murderer of Laios into exile E Teiresias blind prophet summoned F Teiresias Oedipus is murderer G Oedipus accuses Teiresias and Creon of treachery H Messenger from Corinth Polybos dead I Messenger Oedipus adopted J Coincidence 1 messenger brought baby Oedipus to Merope K Messenger got baby from Theban shepherd L Coincidence 2 shepherd sole survivor of attack on Laios M Shepherd admits only one murderer of Laios not several N Oedipus realizes truth anagnorisis exits stage O Finds Jocasta s body hanged P Blinds himself with Jocasta s dress chiton pins Q Enters stage blinded R Goes into exile with daughters A Greek philosopher Aristotle 384 322 B In Poetics literary criticism C Oedipus the King as model tragedy A The earliest surviving work of dramatic theory B C Written by Aristotle 335 BCE The first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory A Not a fatal flaw old view B Instead it was a mistake made by hero of tragedy C What is Oedipus hamartia Aristotle Poetics Hamartia Anagnorisis A Hero misperceives reality B Moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery Dramatic irony character in play A When the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the Teiresias A Blind but see s truth blind prophet B Is called upon by Oedipus to find reason for plague C Says Oedipus is a murder and that is the reason for the plague D Accused of treason Chiton Sigmund Freud A Woolen tunic worn in ancient Greece A Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud 1856 1939 B Oedipus Complex Oedipus Complex A Coined by Freud B Sexual desire of son for mother C Jealousy of son for father D Metaphorical meaning of Oedipus the King A Greek historian Herodotus c 485 c 425 BCE B Tells of exiled Athenian tyrant Hippias Herodotus Hippias A Tyrant of Athens in 6th century B Hippias has a dream 1 Sex with mother 2 Dream good thing 1 Looses tooth 2 Only tooth has mother From Paleontology to Mythology Fossil C Thinks dream means he should invade Persians to restore him to Athens D Older Hippias is on beach and coughs A Latin word Curious or valuable thing that comes from the ground A Skeleton found in the Gobi desert by Roy Chapman Andrews A A mythical creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion B Compared to Protoceratop Protoceratops Griffin Monster of Troy Cyclops A Implication that monster was a dinosaur A A member of a primordial race of giants B Each had a single eye in the middle of his forehead C The name is widely thought to mean circle eyed A Oracle of Delphi foretold that the Spartans could not defeat the Tegeans until they moved the bones of Orestes to Sparta B Delphic Oracle asks Son of Agamemnon to bring home the Bones of Orestes Bones of Orestes Rig Veda Rig Veda A Oldest literary work of India B Rig praise Veda knowledge Composed in early Sanskrit language Indo European language C D Existed orally for many centuries until it was written down later E 1028 hymns to gods in 10 books all praising gods somehow F All poems poetry several poems that tell different bits of the same myths so we combine pieces together to achieve the full effect and info G Sacred to the Hindus yet its originating culture is Veda H Cf Israelite scriptures sacred to Jews and Christians Sanskrit Vedic people Agni A What Rig Veda is composed in B Indo European language A Indian people who composed the Rig Veda A Agni fire cf Latin ignis B Binatural thing god 1 Tangible thing and also a god C Different types of fire heat light 1 Natural fire lightning sun 2 Domestic hearth 3 Ritual sacrifice 4 Funereal cremation 5 Poetry light Soma A Deified sacred drink B Binatural God 1 Physical drink and a god C Hallucinogenic drink 1 Made from unknown plant in mountains 2 Unknown if plant exists today D Sacred drink by gods and priests 1 Vitality and Immortality for Gods 2 Vision for priests 3 Priests partake in momentary god like rituals or are momentarily connected with the gods when they drink it E Effects 1 Fear frightening because it makes you do things
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