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Oedipus's father received a prophesy that he would be killed by his son, so the father and mother--rather than kill their son--left him on a mountain side shackled by his ankle to the mountain. Later, after Oedipus grows (unaware that he was adopted) he learns from a drunken guy in an Ancient Greek bar that he is not really the child of the couple who raised him and that he was left on a mountain side due to the aforementioned prophesy. Oedipus decides to leave the village to avoid being near anyone who might be his father, and he travels far away. He then gets in a chariot accident, and in an ancient form of road rage, does indeed kill his father. Oedipus then wanders to Thebes where there is a pandemic... I mean a plague. People attribute this to the Sphinx...riddle... marries his mother...had four children...pokes out his eyes.

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Oedipus's father received a prophesy that he would be killed by his son, so the father and mother--rather than kill their son--left him on a mountain side shackled by his ankle to the mountain. Later, after Oedipus grows (unaware that he was adopted) he learns from a drunken guy in an Ancient Greek bar that he is not really the child of the couple who raised him and that he was left on a mountain side due to the aforementioned prophesy. Oedipus decides to leave the village to avoid being near anyone who might be his father, and he travels far away. He then gets in a chariot accident, and in an ancient form of road rage, does indeed kill his father. Oedipus then wanders to Thebes where there is a pandemic... I mean a plague. People attribute this to the Sphinx...riddle... marries his mother...had four children...pokes out his eyes.

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Antigone challenges Creon. She buries her brother. She values the desires of the gods and greek rites over man-made laws and a king's opinion.

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Oedipus came to Thebes and solved the riddle of the Sphinx.  He married Jocasta, the wife of the original king who had died.  Later a plague fell upon the city; seeking guidance from the Oracle at Delphi, it was said that there was a defilement in their midst who must be punished. Tieresias, the blind seer was brought in for counsel, and told Oedipus that he was the problem.  Ultimately, Oedipus learns that he had been adopted.  That his original parents had sent him away from home to try to avoid a prediction they had heard.  Oedipus ultimately realizes that he had killed his father and married his mother.  At the end of the play, Jocasta has killed herself and Oedipus in his anguish, blinds himself.

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Oedipus came to Thebes and solved the riddle of the Sphinx.  He married Jocasta, the wife of the original king who had died.  Later a plague fell upon the city; seeking guidance from the Oracle at Delphi, it was said that there was a defilement in their midst who must be punished. Tieresias, the blind seer was brought in for counsel, and told Oedipus that he was the problem.  Ultimately, Oedipus learns that he had been adopted.  That his original parents had sent him away from home to try to avoid a prediction they had heard.  Oedipus ultimately realizes that he had killed his father and married his mother.  At the end of the play, Jocasta has killed herself and Oedipus in his anguish, blinds himself.

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Antigone is a discussion about moral code

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Once Oedipus was born, his parents received a message from the Oracle (or maybe Tiresias?) saying that he would kill his father and marry his mother, so they sent him away to avoid that fate. Oedipus grows up outside of Thebes and is unaware of his background, kills a random guy along the road, which just so happens to be the king, so he rolls into Thebes, marries the queen, who happens to be his mother. Don't remember how it ended, but that's bad enough.

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Oedipus' family experiences one horrific tragedy after another, down through the generations.

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Strong, principled woman.

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Antigone's sister, Ismene, does not share her fiery personality.

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For millennia, literary critics and philosophers have held Sophocles' three Theban plays up as models of excellence.

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Oedipus was meant to be killed as an infant, but the sheppard charged with said murder brought him to a neighboring town/city instead.

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Tricked into f*&%$#! his mom

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Fulfilled prophecy (killing father, marrying mother). Antigone is child of Oedipus / Jocasta

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Oedipus found out his destiny was to kill his father and marry his mother, and in trying to avoid this fate, he ironically made decisions that fulfilled it.

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ETEOKLES and POLYNEIKES, sons of self-blinded OIDIPOUS, have been at war because ETEOKLES refused to alternate the rule of Thebes with his brother, as he had promised. So POLYNEIKES led an army of military allies from Argos against the city.

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Doomed to kill his father, marry his mother. All comes to pass. Blinds himself. Lives out rest of days in solitude. Four kids.

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Doomed to kill his father, marry his mother. All comes to pass. Blinds himself. Lives out rest of days in solitude. Four kids.

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Antigone and her sister, Ismene, can't agree.

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Creon’s sons are/were Eteokles and Polyneikes.

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Creon is the brother of Jocasta (Oedipus’ wife and mother).

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Antigone and Ismene are the last of the line of the house of Oedipus.

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In biology an “antigen” is “a foreign substance that induces an immune response in the body.” (Does this include the body politic?)

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According to one of the play’s translators, Antigone’s name “should mean something like ‘born to oppose’ or ‘born in opposition’ [though this is controversial]

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Back-story of Antigone: Who knows the story/myth of Oedipus? Please share what you know or any associations that you make with Antigone: