Sophocles: Oedipus the King (Volume A)
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Sophocles: Oedipus the King (Volume A)
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Sophocles• Athens, Colonus• education• golden age• Peloponnesian War
(431 B.C.E.)
• theater changes• tritagonist
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• tragedy and imitation• style: embellished, different parts• catharsis• 6 elements: plot, character, language,
thought, spectacle, and melody• plot: recognition, catharsis, reversal• unhappy endings• probability and inevitability• deus ex machina• chorus
Aristotle’s Poetics: Tragedy
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Elements of Plot• recognition
(anagnorisis)• catharsis • reversal (peripeteia)
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Catharsis, Hamartia
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Thebes, Corinth
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Delphic Oracle: Know Thyself
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Sphinx• feminine• merciless• cunning• lion-bird-woman
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Adoption• Delphic Oracle• exposure• blood guilt• adoption• Corinth, Thebes
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Tiresias • physical blindness
versus visions and prophecy
• judge for the gods
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• democracy• Oedipus/ Creon• Antigone• Oedipus at Colonus
Politics
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“Don’t claim any man god’s friend until he has passed through life and crossed the border into death—never having been god’s victim” (lines 1744–46)
Chorus/ Play’s Lesson
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Discussion Questions
Oedipus’s pride might be considered a tragic flaw, but does pride truly bring about his downfall? Looked at another way, could the pestilence afflicting Thebes be rooted out without Oedipus’s single-minded determination to solve the latest riddle, regardless of the consequences?
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Oedipus blames Apollo for bringing his sorrow to completion but claims that the act of putting his eyes out was his own. Certainly there is a sense that Oedipus does not deserve his fate, but what, then, is he responsible for, and what does the audience learn from the experience of the play?
Discussion Questions
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