Oedipus & Greek theatre Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest 2025
Who is Cadmus? - Answers Founder of Thebes
What is the opening sequence of events? - Answers A priest goes with children to beg for help from
Oedipus because they are dying from a plague
What points of exposition do we learn learned in opening scene? - Answers There is a plague and the
people believe Oedipus can save them because he saved them from the sphinx.
What details about Dionysius do we learn in the last antistrophe of the first stasimon? - Answers He is a
god with a turban of gold, the bacchic god with the wind flushed his face
What does Creon report from Apollo? - Answers He reports that in order to get rid of the plague, they
have to drive out a pollution which is the person who murdered Laius and there is a clue in the land to
help them find him.
What is Oedipus' response to Creon's report? - Answers He says he will do everything to find the
murderer and they will be rightfully punished.
Why does Jocasta not believe in prophecies? - Answers There was a prophecy that there child would kill
there father and marry his mother, but they made a Shepard kill the child when he was young so the
prophecy can't be true(it is true cause Oedipus is there kid but they don't know that)
What details does Oedipus asks about Laius' murder? - Answers Oedipus asks where he was killed.
(crossroad) what he looked like( describes a king that looked like him). Who he was with( five men
among them a herald)
What detail differs between Oedipus' account of the murder and the Herdsman's? - Answers That
highway robbers killed the king not just one man
What are the parts of a play, and what happens in each (labeled)? - Answers Prologue- spoken by the
main character to the audience. Background info and foreshadowing of the play
Parados- the entrance of the chorus & the first spoken part by the chorus.
Episodes & odes/stasimin- five episodes each followed by an ode ( a choral passage, called the stasimon)
Exodus- this is the departure of the chorus from the theatre
Who wrote the play? - Answers Sophocles
What is the definition of Tragedy? Tragic hero? Tragic flaw? - Answers tragedy: an action that is serious
and epic and results in a catharsis of pity and fear and contains dramatic irony.
tragic flaw: a weakness or flaw of a character
tragic hero: has everything (power, wealth, etc.) but loses it because of a flaw
Who is Cadmus? - Answers Founder of Thebes
What is the opening sequence of events? - Answers A priest goes with children to beg for help from
Oedipus because they are dying from a plague
What points of exposition do we learn learned in opening scene? - Answers There is a plague and the
people believe Oedipus can save them because he saved them from the sphinx.
What details about Dionysius do we learn in the last antistrophe of the first stasimon? - Answers He is a
god with a turban of gold, the bacchic god with the wind flushed his face
What does Creon report from Apollo? - Answers He reports that in order to get rid of the plague, they
have to drive out a pollution which is the person who murdered Laius and there is a clue in the land to
help them find him.
What is Oedipus' response to Creon's report? - Answers He says he will do everything to find the
murderer and they will be rightfully punished.
Why does Jocasta not believe in prophecies? - Answers There was a prophecy that there child would kill
there father and marry his mother, but they made a Shepard kill the child when he was young so the
prophecy can't be true(it is true cause Oedipus is there kid but they don't know that)
What details does Oedipus asks about Laius' murder? - Answers Oedipus asks where he was killed.
(crossroad) what he looked like( describes a king that looked like him). Who he was with( five men
among them a herald)
What detail differs between Oedipus' account of the murder and the Herdsman's? - Answers That
highway robbers killed the king not just one man
What are the parts of a play, and what happens in each (labeled)? - Answers Prologue- spoken by the
main character to the audience. Background info and foreshadowing of the play
Parados- the entrance of the chorus & the first spoken part by the chorus.
Episodes & odes/stasimin- five episodes each followed by an ode ( a choral passage, called the stasimon)
Exodus- this is the departure of the chorus from the theatre
Who wrote the play? - Answers Sophocles
What is the definition of Tragedy? Tragic hero? Tragic flaw? - Answers tragedy: an action that is serious
and epic and results in a catharsis of pity and fear and contains dramatic irony.
tragic flaw: a weakness or flaw of a character
tragic hero: has everything (power, wealth, etc.) but loses it because of a flaw
