Classics 2200: Final Exam Question and answer verified to pass
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Classics 2200: Final Exam Question and answer verified to pass
Two fundamental and universal taboos about Oedipus - correct answer 1. Parricide: an obliteration of one's origin
2. Incest with mother: a crime against time, a confusion of cause and effect. Oedipus is fated to do both and he him...
Classics 2200: Final Exam Question and
answer verified to pass
Two fundamental and universal taboos about Oedipus - correct answer ✔1.
Parricide: an obliteration of one's origin
2. Incest with mother: a crime against time, a confusion of cause and effect.
Oedipus is fated to do both and he himself is the answer to all his questions
Oedipus as philosopher - correct answer ✔The Delphic oracle was said to
have proclaimed him the wisest person. He said that the only thing he knew
was that he knew nothing. He was put to death by the Athenians in 399 BCE.
Oedipus' great virtue, his drive to learn the truth, is also the cause of his
downfall
Sophocles - correct answer ✔Athenian tragedian (ca. 496-406 BCE). Among
his 7 surviving plays are three concerning the house of Laius: Antigone (ca
441 BCE), Oedipus the King (ca 428 BCE), Oedipus at Colonus (ca 401 BCE)
Oedipus as hero - correct answer ✔Comes of age away from home. Kills an
enemy while travelling. Returns to birthplace. Destroys a monster (Sphinx).
Marries the queen and rules as king. His oikos is destroyed but the health of
his polis is restored. He undergoes exile, suffering (Oedipus at Colonus).
Supernatural death and hero cult (Oedipus at Colonus)
Delphic oracles in Oedipus' story - correct answer ✔1. Oracle #1 to Laius:
about his son
2. Oracle #2 to Oedipus: about his fate
3. Oracle #3 to Creon: about the miasma in Thebes
4. Oracle #4 to Oedipus: about his death
5. Oracle #5 to Thebans: about the bones of Oedipus
,The riddle of the Sphinx - correct answer ✔What walks on four legs in the
morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening? A human
Oedipus at Colonus - correct answer ✔Oedipus is exiled (because of
miasma). Wanders old, blind, in rags, with his daughter Antigone. Arrives at
sacred grove of the Eumenides at Colonus, where he seeks refuge by
supplicating Theseus, king of Athens. Similar to Oresteia. Two sons each
seek Oedipus' support in civil war. Oedipus curses his two sons and goes into
the sacred grove with Theseus and a messenger comes back to tell the news
of his disappearance. The grove becomes a symbol for the death of Oedipus.
Mysterious death makes him a cult hero
Oedipus' funeral rites - correct answer ✔Polynieces leads 7 generals against
the city of Thebes and Eteocles defends the city so its brother against brother.
They kill each other simultaneously at the main gates using spears. The rule
of Thebes goes to Creon once the two sons of Oedipus die. Polyneices
doesn't get buried as punishment so the dogs and the birds can devour his
body. Antigone tells her sister about the new decree from king Creon.
Utterance of king Creon immediately becomes a law. Antigone feels that in
the absence of other female members in her family, that it is her task to do a
burial for both of her brothers. Creon is coming to announce the law publicly,
so Antigone gives her sister an ultimatum asking if she's a true sister and loyal
to her family or the king. Antigone wants to perform a funeral ritual for
Polyneices, but Asthmetes, her sister, tells her she's crazy for wanting that.
Antigone and Asthmetes represent different sides of the law. Then Antigone
rejects her sister completely and tells her she's going to carry out the task
herself and that she should lie with him in death because she will be killed for
completing this task. Antigone appeals to the law of the gods but Asthmetes
appeals to the laws of the king. Antigone claims she will win honour for dying
for her brother. Antigone represents oikos and Creon represents polis.
Oikos vs Polis (Antigone vs Creon) - correct answer ✔Creon is furious at
what Antigone did and so he requests that his guards figure out who did it.
There were no tracks or foot prints or anything except the body. The leader of
, the chorus suggests that the gods did it because they care about proper ritual.
This infuriates Creon and he immediately turns to blame corruption. It's the
same conclusion that Oedipus came to. The guard runs off and the chorus
sings about how laws are important. The guard returns with Antigone and this
is shocking because its Antigone. The guard tells the whole story about how
they were watching the corpse carefully but then a dust storm happened and
no one could see and once it passes, Antigone arrived and brought more dust
and sprinkled dust and wine for her brothers death. So the guards arrest her.
Antigone said she did it because Creons law was not the gods proclamation
so she was allowed to do it. Creon is worried about his authority being
undermined by a woman. Creon tells Antigone that she can find her love in
hell. Antigone was supposed to marry Creon's son Haemon. Creon condemns
Antigone to death and when his son finds out, Creon says there are plenty of
places for his son to push his plough and that he doesn't want shitty women
for his son. Haemon tries to persuade his father, the discussion between them
becomes heated until they're almost insulting each other. Haemon tells his
father that it is the wise man that will appeal to his business. Sophocles is
presenting to a democratic audience with a story set in an older time
Creon and the death of Antigone - correct answer ✔Creon thinks Haemon is
threatening to kill him once Antigone dies because he said that two people will
die. Creon says he's going to lock Antigone in a stone enclosure. The
expectation is that she will die. Too much love can bring trouble to the
household. The chorus is sympathetic with Antigone. Antigone talks of herself
as a bride of death. Antigone says she's like Niobe because she's encased in
stone. She ties her own faith to the incestuous relationship of which she came
from (her parents). Tiresias tells Creon that as he was sitting in his chair
watching the signs of the birds, he saw bad omens and that the Gods are not
accepting the sacrifices because the birds have been feasting on something
they shouldn't be feasting on. This is Creons fault because he let the birds
feed on Polynieces' body and denied him a burial which upset the way of the
universe. Creon tells Tiresias that he is corrupt and that someone has paid
him off. Antigone does not wait for death by starvation in the cave, she hangs
herself like her mother. Haemon finds her already dead and is crying out that
his father has stolen her away from him. Creon speaks to Haemon but
Haemon is furious with his father and tries to kill him but fails and turns the
sword on himself, killing himself to be with Antigone. Creon loses absolutely
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