Oedipus cards

Question 1

‘Huddling at my Altar,
praying before me, your branches wound in wool’

Answer 1

Prologos
Oedipus to suppliants (priests) at first address while they are gathered at his door.

Question 2

‘black Death luxuriates
in the raw, wailing misery of Thebes.’

Answer 2

Prologos
Priest (chosen by Oedipus) to Oedipus regarding plague effect on the city

Question 3

‘but we do rate you first of men’

‘we beg you, best of men, raise up your city’

Answer 3

Prologos
Priest (chosen by Oedipus) to Oedipus

Question 4

‘we taught you nothing,
…. and still you triumphed.’

Answer 4

Prologos
Priest (chosen by Oedipus) to Oedipus

Question 5

‘I’ll do anything. I would be blind to misery
not to pity my people kneeling at my feet.’

Answer 5

Prologos
Oedipus to prostate suppliants (priests)

Question 6

‘drive the corruption from the land’

Answer 6

Prologos
Creon relaying words of Apollo from oracle

Question 7

‘I have wept though the nights, you must know that,
groping, labouring over many paths of thought’

Answer 7

Prologos
Oedipus in response to Priest (remedy is action)

Question 8

‘Here I am myself-
you all know me, the world knows my fame:
I am Oedipus

Answer 8

Prologos
Oedipus to suppliants (priests)

Question 9

repetition of ‘My children’

Answer 9

Prologos
Oedipus addressing suppliants (priests)

Question 10

‘I’ll bring it all to light myself’
‘I am the land’s avenger’
‘I’ll do anything’

Answer 10

Prologos
Oedipus to Creon regarding words of oracle (rid Thebes of murderer)

Question 11

‘Thebes is dying’
‘Thebes, city of death’
‘children dead in the womb’
‘generations strewn on the ground’

Answer 11

Parados
Chorus chanting as they march to altar