oedipus test review (correct answers) 2024

what is significant about the fact that the first line in the play is a question? - Ans - the play will be a series of questions and answers- a mystery of sorts how does oedipus choose the spokesman of the group of supplicants? - Ans - oedipus chooses the apperntlly oldest supplicant o be the groups spokesman what is your first impression of oedipus? - Ans - he is powerful and proud what problem is afflicting thebes at this time? - Ans - a strange plague is causing sickness and suffering. the crops, the herds and even unborn children are dying. what is the house of Cadmus? - Ans - thebes-founded by cadmus how does the priest say the supplicants view oedipus? how does this begin to establish oedipus as an aristotelian tragic hero? - Ans - the priest says they do not via oedipus as a new god, but as the primary of men. this holds with aristotle's view that a traffic hero had to be god,demi-god, or hero. in case we didn't already know it, what exposition does he priest provide in this scene? - Ans - the priest reminds the audience that oedipus is the hero who solved the riddle of the sphinx (the "fell songstress") and freed the city of Thebes from its bondage. why do the supplicants believe that oedipus will be able to find a solution to the famine? - Ans - the priest explains that oedipus had no human help when he solved the riddle of the sphinx, so he must have h