1. English 10 Literature Lesson #2 Mr. Rinka Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus

2. Oedipus Trilogy Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus Antigone

3. Tragic Hero #1 A person of great position #2 who has a character flaw #3 and falls from his position #4 due to his own actions

4. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Some twelve years before the action of the play begins, Oedipus has been made King of Thebes. He freed the people of Thebes from the suffering brought on them by the presence of the riddling Sphinx.

5. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Since Laius, the former king, had shortly before been killed, Oedipus also married Queen Jocasta. Unknown to all, Laius was Odepius’s father and Jocasta is his mother.

6. Oedipus https://mswrede0708.wikispaces.com/LIT+CRITICS+2 https://mswrede0708.wikispaces.com/LIT+CRITICS+2

7. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html When he was born the Oracle told his parents their son would kill Laius and marry Jocasta. The parents had a servant take the baby to Mt. Citheron and leave him to die.

8. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html The servant felt sympathy for the baby and gave him to a man from Corinth. This man took baby Oedipus to Corinth and gave him to Polybus and Merope the King and Queen who could not have children.

9. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html They raised Oedipus until as a young man he found out from the Oracle that he was to kill his father and marry his mother. Frightened, he ran away from Corinth to avoid his fate, but actually walked into it.

10. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html At the junction of three roads on the route to Delphi, Oedipus encountered King Lauis (not knowing who he was) and killed him after being bullied. He then entered Thebes where he solved the riddle of the Sphinx and saved the city.

11. Riddle of the Sphinx http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/riddles.html http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/riddles.html

12. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Now another deadly pestilence is raging and the people have come to ask Oedipus to rescue them again. Creon, Jocasta's brother, returns at the very moment from Apollo's oracle and announces that all will be well if Laius' murderer be found and cast from the city.

13. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Oedipus vows to find and punish the murderer and sends for the blind seer, Tiresias. Under pressure from Oedipus the prophet names Oedipus himself as the criminal. Oedipus is infuriated with this news.

14. Teiresias http://huinee1787.blogspot.com/2009/02/teiresias-tiresias.html http://huinee1787.blogspot.com/2009/02/teiresias-tiresias.html

15. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Oedipus claims Tiresias is plotting with Creon to gain the throne. Jocasta appears just in time to avoid a battle between the two men. She assures Oedipus that seers are not infallible.

16. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html As proof, she cites the old prophecy that her son would kill his father and have children with her. She confesses she prevented this by abandoning their infant son in the mountains. As for Laius, he was killed by robbers years later at the junction of three roads on the route to Delphi.

17. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Oedipus recalls killing a man similar to Laius' description at the same spot when he was fleeing from his home in Corinth to avoid fulfillment of a similar prophecy. An old messenger arrives from Corinth, to announce the death of King Polybus, and the election of Oedipus as king.

18. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Because of the old prophecy Oedipus refuses to return to Corinth until his mother is dead. The messenger assures him that he is not the blood son of Polybus and Merope, but a child from the house of Laius deserted in the mountains.

19. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html This statement is confirmed by the old shepherd whom Jocasta had ordered to kill her baby on Mt. Citheron. So, the ancient prophecy was fulfilled in each dreadful detail. Jocasta in her horror hangs herself.

20. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html Oedipus stabs out his eyes. Then he imposes on himself the penalty of exile which he had promised for the murderer of Laius.

21. Oedipus http://sumnonrabidus.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/oedipus.jpg http://sumnonrabidus.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/oedipus.jpg

22. Oedipus Rex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA1_ QZxvRyo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOL mfbeACoQ&feature=related

23. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ Led by his daughter Antigone, Oedipus, the blind and banished King of Thebes, has wandered to Colonus. He sits to rest on a rock just within a sacred grove of the Furies and is told to leave by a passing native.

24. Oedipus and Antigone http://www.auburnschools.org/ahs/kmock/English%2010/English%2010 %20Main%20Page.htm http://www.auburnschools.org/ahs/kmock/English%2010/English%2010 %20Main%20Page.htm

25. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ But Oedipus, instructed by an oracle that he had reached his final resting- place, refuses, and the stranger goes and consults the Elders of Colonus. At first, the Elders pity the blind beggar and his daughter.

26. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ Learning his name the Elders are horrified and order him to leave the land. Oedipus appeals to the world-famed hospitality of Athens and implies blessings his coming will give the state.

27. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ They agree to await a decision from King Theseus. Theseus arrives, and Oedipus asks him for protection in life and burial in this land; he promises much good fortune would follow.

28. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ Theseus departs having promised to aid and befriend him. As soon as Theseus leaves Creon enters with an armed guard and seizes Antigone. They have already captured Ismene, the other sister.

29. Antigone & Ismene http://www1.union.edu/wareht/gkcultur/guide/11 / http://www1.union.edu/wareht/gkcultur/guide/11 /

30. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ Creon is about to take Oedipus, when Theseus, who heard the ruckus, hurries up and, scorning Creon for his lawless act, threatens to arrest him till he has shown where the captives are and freed them.

31. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ In the next scene Theseus returns bringing with him the freed sisters. Theseus informs Oedipus that a stranger who has taken sanctuary at the altar of Poseidon wishes to see Oedipus.

32. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ The stranger is Polyneices who has come to receive his father’s blessings and forgiveness, knowing by an oracle that victory will fall to the side that Oedipus backs. Oedipus denies the hypocrite, and places a curse on both his unnatural sons. Eteocles is the other son.

33. Oedipus, Antigone, Ismene, & Polyneices http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/sophocles_oedipus02.htm http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/sophocles_oedipus02.htm

34. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ A clap of thunder sounds, and Oedipus is aware that his hour is come and bids Antigone summon Theseus. Attended by Theseus and his daughters, Oedipus leads the way to the spot where he should die.

35. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ Halfway he bids his daughters farewell, and only Theseus knows where he died. He must keep it secret. The gods take Oedipus. Theseus had promised to take care of Antigone and Ismene.

36. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ http://athina.byzantinewalls.org/2009/08/10/summary-of-oedipus-at-colonus/ Antigone leaves to try and stop the siege of Thebes from happening.

37. Oedipus at Colonus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg- X6YloOg&feature=related

38. English 10 Literature Lesson #2 Mr. Rinka Oedipus Rex & Oedipus at Colonus

39. Oedipus Trilogy Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus Antigone