Hi guys! I just reread my blog and I realized that I had written your first literary term is due on Wednesday, the 11th and IT IS NOT! Sorry about the confusion. It's still due on the 12th; however, your outline on Aristotle's POETICS is due and payable.
Some more questions and information for you to consider as you read OEDIPUS REX:
1. "From the old man skilled at hearing Fate in the wingbest of a bird....." refers to Teiresias and his skill at divination. Oracles would divine the gods' will by analyzing the flight pattern of birds or the entrails (intestines) of birds.
2. On page 25, the "the carrion woman" is a reference to the Sphinx who had the body of a lion and the face of a woman who held court on a road into the city. She hailed down pestilence on the city of Thebes, demanding that all men who encountered her on the road to Thebes must answer her riddle. The only one who could answer the riddle was Oedipus who broke the Sphinx's reign of terror.
3. What is Oedipus' reaction to his brother-in-law, Creon?
4. Did Teiresias mention Oedipus' name at the time of Laios' murder?
4. What is Creon's rebuttal to Oedipus' charge that Creon wishes to usurp his throne?
5. What does Creon mean when he says, "For time, and time alone, will show the just man, Though scoundrels are discovered in a day..."
6. Choragos swears on Helios who is the sun god. In his travels across the skies, nothing - no word spoken or deed committed - goes unnoticed by him.
7. What does Jocasta use as her argument against oracles?
8. What did King Laios do to their child to prevent the oracle's prediction from coming true?
9. Where was King Laios killed?
10. You might want to remember what Aristotle says about the recognition occurring with a memory or with scars.
11. Who of the King's retinue escaped from the marauding highwaymen?
12. When the servant saw Oedipus on the throne at Thebes, what did he ask of Jocasta?
13. What did a drunken man at a feast at the court of Corinth tell Oedipus?
14. What did the oracle of Delphi tell Oedipus when he came to the shrine disturbed by what the drunken man had said?
15. What disturbing memory does Oedipus have at the place where three roads meet?
16. On what slender thread does Oedipus' one hope that he did not kill Laios now hang?
17. What information does the messenger from Corinth give to Oedipus?
18. Why is Oedipus overjoyed at first by the news the messenger gives him?
19. How does the messenger's additional news turn devastating for Oedipus?
20. What role did the messenger play in Oedipus' infancy?
21. What horrifying truth does Jocasta by this time realizes?
22. What reason does Oedipus think Jocasta is upset?
Some more questions and information for you to consider as you read OEDIPUS REX:
1. "From the old man skilled at hearing Fate in the wingbest of a bird....." refers to Teiresias and his skill at divination. Oracles would divine the gods' will by analyzing the flight pattern of birds or the entrails (intestines) of birds.
2. On page 25, the "the carrion woman" is a reference to the Sphinx who had the body of a lion and the face of a woman who held court on a road into the city. She hailed down pestilence on the city of Thebes, demanding that all men who encountered her on the road to Thebes must answer her riddle. The only one who could answer the riddle was Oedipus who broke the Sphinx's reign of terror.
3. What is Oedipus' reaction to his brother-in-law, Creon?
4. Did Teiresias mention Oedipus' name at the time of Laios' murder?
4. What is Creon's rebuttal to Oedipus' charge that Creon wishes to usurp his throne?
5. What does Creon mean when he says, "For time, and time alone, will show the just man, Though scoundrels are discovered in a day..."
6. Choragos swears on Helios who is the sun god. In his travels across the skies, nothing - no word spoken or deed committed - goes unnoticed by him.
7. What does Jocasta use as her argument against oracles?
8. What did King Laios do to their child to prevent the oracle's prediction from coming true?
9. Where was King Laios killed?
10. You might want to remember what Aristotle says about the recognition occurring with a memory or with scars.
11. Who of the King's retinue escaped from the marauding highwaymen?
12. When the servant saw Oedipus on the throne at Thebes, what did he ask of Jocasta?
13. What did a drunken man at a feast at the court of Corinth tell Oedipus?
14. What did the oracle of Delphi tell Oedipus when he came to the shrine disturbed by what the drunken man had said?
15. What disturbing memory does Oedipus have at the place where three roads meet?
16. On what slender thread does Oedipus' one hope that he did not kill Laios now hang?
17. What information does the messenger from Corinth give to Oedipus?
18. Why is Oedipus overjoyed at first by the news the messenger gives him?
19. How does the messenger's additional news turn devastating for Oedipus?
20. What role did the messenger play in Oedipus' infancy?
21. What horrifying truth does Jocasta by this time realizes?
22. What reason does Oedipus think Jocasta is upset?
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