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When was Oedipus Rex written?
430 BC (5th Century BC)
Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
Sophocles
Where did Oedipus Rex place in the City of Dionysia?
Second place
"King of our land,
...greatest power" (Priest)
"Never will I convict
...my king, never in my heart" (Chorus)
"We do rate you
...first of men" (Priest)
"The world knows 
...my fame: I am Oedipus" (Oedipus)
"You pray to the
...Gods, let me grant your prayers" (Oedipus)
"But as sick as you 
...are not one as sick as I" (Oedipus)
"But now all those prophecies
...I feared - Polybus packs them off to sleep with him in hell! They're nothing, worthless" (Oedipus)
"The flight of 
...my own intelligence hit the mark" (Oedipus)
"Drive me out of
...Thebes in exile" (Oedipus)
"This is sickness more 
...than he can bear" (Chorus)
"He digs them into his eye sockets,
... crying "You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused"" (Oedipus)
"Kill me, hurl me 
...into the sea where you can never look on me again" (Oedipus)
"Better to die 
...than be alive and blind" (Chorus)
"Still the king, the master 
...of all things? No more: here your power ends. None of your power follows through life" (Creon)
"Rasing pins, racking them 
...down his eyes. And at each stroke blood spurts from his eyes" (Messenger)
"You've wept enough, 
...into the palace now" (Creon)
"I can't bear 
...to look" (Chorus)
"I shudder at 
...the sight" (Chorus)
"I stripped myself, 
...I gave the command" (Oedipus)
"Cursed in my birth,
...cursed in my marriage, cursed in the lives I cut down with these hands" (Oedipus)
"I must know my birth, 
...no matter how common it may be" (Oedipus)
"I am at the edge of 
...hearing horrors but I must know" (Oedipus)
What was Oedipus' hamartia?
His hubris
What is a peripeteia?
The loss of power and status
What is an anagnorisis? 
The realisation of the truth
"So I will fight 
...for him as if he were my father" (Oedipus)
"Even if it does
...lead to my ruin, my death" (Oedipus)
"Out with is the time has
...come to reveal this once and for all" (Oedipus)
"May the curse I just 
...called down on him strike me" (Oedipus)
"This is my blood, my
...nature, I'll never betray it" (Oedipus)
"Whoever killed the king 
...may decide to kill me too, by the same violent hand" (Oedipus)
"I never saw 
...the man myself" (Oedipus)
"He never had a chance 
...to kill his father, they destroyed him first" (Jocasta)
What is ironic about the description of Joacasta's suicide?
The noose is described as "cradling her high", which has maternal connotations
"I have a terrible
...fear the blind seer can see" (Oedipus)
"You've lost your power,
...stone-blind, stone-deaf. Eyes blind as stone" (Oedipus)
"So hungry to overthrow me he 
...sets this wizard on me, this scheming quack" (Oedipus)