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How does Kreon characterize Poyneikes in his opening speech?…

How does Kreon characterize Poyneikes in his opening speech?  

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Whose death follows shortly after that of Haimon’s? 

Whose death follows shortly after that of Haimon’s? 

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Deiphobe is the daughter of Glaucus.  What other role does s…

Deiphobe is the daughter of Glaucus.  What other role does she have in Book VI? 

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What advice does the Leader give to Kreon, after hearing the…

What advice does the Leader give to Kreon, after hearing the bleak prophecies of Tiresias?  

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What information in the form of a prophecy does Teiresias re…

What information in the form of a prophecy does Teiresias reveal to Oedipus about the “murderer of Laius” ? 

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Which is one of the tasks Aeneas must first accomplish befor…

Which is one of the tasks Aeneas must first accomplish before he can descend into the Underworld?  

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What’s the prophecy that Juno (the Roman version of Hera) ha…

What’s the prophecy that Juno (the Roman version of Hera) had heard about her favorite city, Carthage?

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Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom…

Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom under what circumstances) and significance of the following quotation from Antigone: (4-6 good sentences): And you, know well you shall not live through many more swift-racing courses of the sun before you give a child of your own flesh and blood in turn, a corpse to pay for corpses, since you’ve cast below a person  who belongs above, making a living soul  reside within a tomb dishonorably, and keep  up here a corpse belonging to the gods below,  deprived of rites, of offerings, of piety. 

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Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom…

Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom under what circumstances) and significance of the following quotation from Oedipus the King: (4-6 good sentences): after his birth King Laius pierced his ankles and by the hands of others cast him forth upon a pathless hillside.  So Apollo failed to fulfill his oracle to the son, that he should kill his father, and to Laius also proved false in that the thing he feared, death at his son’s hands, never came to pass. So clear in this case were the oracles, so clear and so false.  Give them no need, I say.

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Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom…

Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom under what circumstances) and significance of the following quotation from Antigone: (4-6 good sentences): There is no greater evil than unruliness. It ruins cities and makes households desolate, it breaks and turns to flight the ranks of allied spears. But when the lives of mortals go aright, it is obedience to rule that keeps most bodies safe. Therefore we must defend the cause of order, and  by no means let a woman get the upper hand. Better to fall, if we must do so, to a man; then nobody could call us conquered by a woman.  

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