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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, why is Thebes cursed with a plague in the play?
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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, whence comes Creon near the beginning of the play?
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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, how is Creon related to Oedipus?
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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, what is rather unique about Tiresias the prophet?
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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, where was Oedipus raised before reaching manhood?
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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, with whom does Oedipus believe that Tiresias is plotting?
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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, who was the only survivor of Oedipus' attack at the crossroads?
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In Sophocles' play Oedipus the King, where was Oedipus bodily disfigured as a baby?
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Which of the following is not a play by Sophocles?
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The Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles comprises Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and what other play?
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Who does Antigone seek to bury?SophoclesAntigone
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In Sophocles' Antigone the heroine goes against the law because she wants:
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Fill in the missing name of an ancient writer in this stanza from Matthew Arnold's poem, 'Dover Beach' --
"_______ long ago
Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea."
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Fill in the missing name in these lines from Elizabeth Barret Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, V:
"I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once _______ her sepulchral urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn
The ashes at thy feet."
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In this 1944 play, Jean Anouilh adapted a tragedy originally written by Sophocles so as to reflect the ambiguity of authority in Nazi-controlled France.
The play premiered in Paris in 1944 and was first produced in England, by Sir Laurence Olivier, at London's Old Vic Theatre in 1949; starring Vivien Leigh in the role of the titular heroine.
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The fate of this daughter of the Atridian dynasty is central to tragedies written by all three of ancient Greece's great tragedians: Sophocles, Euripides and -- although to a somewhat lesser extent -- Aeschylus. Who was she?
(Hint: Interlinked with her own story is that of her brother, which in turn is also the subject of the dramatic work of Euripides and Aeschylus in particular. A trilogy by Aeschylus which bears her brother's name was adapted by Eugene O'Neill.)
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Who was Oedipus's daughter?
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