Oedipus

• What are the names of Oedipus’ adoptive parents?

  Polybus and Merope
• What are the names of Oedipus’ birth parents?

  Laius and Jocasta
• what are the names of the plays following Oedipus’ children after his death?

  Oedipus at Colonus, Seven Against Thebes, Antigone
• What mountain was Oedipus left on?

  Mount Cithaeron
• What real life person may Oedipus have represented?

  Pericles
• What are the names of Oedipus’ children?

  Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polynices.
• ”To attend the theatre is a democratic act” - Simon Goldhill
• What does Oedipus use to blind himself?

  Jocasta’s brooches
• Where did Oedipus grow up?

  Corinth
• “The tragic hero has a characteristic inability to yield; despite being faced with opposition there is something in his physic, human nature that makes him “stay true to himself”” - Bernard Knox