Summary (Leaving Cert Classical Studies): Flashcards
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Practise the cards
13 cards from this deck
Episodes & stasima
Episodes & stasima
Dialogue scenes & choral odes
Thebes' crisis at play start
Thebes' crisis at play start
Devastating plague
Tiresias
Tiresias
Blind prophet
Tiresias accuses Oedipus of
Tiresias accuses Oedipus of
Being Laius's murderer
Anagnorisis
Anagnorisis
Recognition/moment of truth
Peripeteia
Peripeteia
Reversal of fortune
Hubris
Hubris
Excessive pride
Where Laius was killed
Where Laius was killed
At a crossroads
Jocasta's death method
Jocasta's death method
Hanging herself
How Oedipus blinds himself
How Oedipus blinds himself
With Jocasta's golden brooches
Sight/blindness irony
Sight/blindness irony
Seeing king blind to truth; blind prophet sees clearly
Oracle's demand
Oracle's demand
Expel Laius's murderer
Mount Cithaeron
Mount Cithaeron
Where baby Oedipus was found