Eng II Period 6 | "Oedipus Rex" & "Antigone" by Sophocles by Christina Zacharias https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018 Login to Padlet (You should not be ANONYMOUS!) Research 5-10 background facts (bullet points) on each play. en-us 2018-03-26 12:21:10 UTC 2025-10-25 14:12:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Facts vincent_manguno https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246043198 Rex
1. The setting is in Thebes, Greece.
2. It was foretold that Rex would 🤬 his father and then marry his mother and would be the father of his siblings.
3. The genre is tragedy
4. Foreshadowing
5. He is the example of fate
Antigone
1. "Anti-" means the opposite
2. Hernames opposes the beliefs of Greeks
3. She wanted to bury someone
4. Considered crazy
5. Hated Ismene]]> 2018-03-26 12:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246043198 Plays cody_benton1 https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246211349 Oedipus Rex

  • The setting is in Thebes, Greece.
  • First performance was during 429 BC.
  • The genre is tragedy.
  • One of the characters in the play is Oedipus, who is the (mythical) king of Thebes.
  • The chorus was made up of the Theban elders.

Antigone

  • First performance was during 442 BC.
  • The genre is tragedy.
  • Fate and free will are the central themes of Antigone.
  • There was an adaptation of this play, it was done during 1961.
  • Creonte attempted to restore order and was seen as a good ruler, but in the end he was alone due to his pride, which makes him a tragic hero.
]]> 2018-03-26 17:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246211349 Oedipus Rex: hannah_furshman https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246211878 1. Also known by greek title Oedipus Tyrannus.
2. it is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles.
3. Also goes by oedipus the King
4. First preformed around 429 BC
5. Setting: Thebes
Antigone:
1. A tragedy 
2. A playwright by Sophocles 
3. Original language is in Ancient Greek
4. First performed in 442 BC
5. The third of the three Theban plays.]]> 2018-03-26 17:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246211878 Oedipus Rex & Antigone mackenzie_grushoff https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212004 Oedipus got his name after his father found out that Oedipus was destined to him. Oedipus’s parents bounded his feet together and sent him away. This left him with swollen feet, which in Greek is Oedipus.
2. The Delphic Oracle tells Oedipus that he will his father and marry his mother. In order to avoid this he moves to Thebes where he accidentally kills his father and marries his mother.
3.One of the major themes of the book is sight because the people that can actually see like Oedipus cannot really interpret what is happening but the blind Tiresias cant see everything for what it really is.
4. When Oedipus learns that his wife is his mother and he has killed his father
he rips his eyes out.
This goes along with the sight theme because right when
Oedipus could actually see thing for what they really are he took his vision
away.
5. When Oedipus learns that his wife is his mother and he has killed his father he rips his eyes out.
This goes along with the sight theme because right when Oedipus could actually see thing for what they really are he took his vision
away.

"Antigone"
1. An important play, written by Sophocles and a good example, for his modern techniques.
2. The theoretical essence of the play is the conflict between individual conscience and the power of the state. 
3. The tragedy was written somewhere around 442 BC. 
4.If you check out the chronological order of his Theban play, Antigone makes up the third part.
5. Antigone is both the daughter and the sister of Oedipus 
]]> 2018-03-26 17:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212004 shai_aroshas https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212104 1.  Oedipus Rex epitomizes the concept of fate. 
2. From his early birth it was foretold that he would his father and marry his mother.  Then he would be the father of his siblings.
3. Antigone presents a different argument to this idea.  The first implication is the word anti in her name.  Her name suggests that she opposes a belief of the Greeks. 
4. Antigone presents a different argument to this idea.  The first implication is the word anti in her name.  Her name suggests that she opposes a belief of the Greeks. 
5.Antigone presents a different argument to this idea.  The first implication is the word anti in her name.  Her name suggests that she opposes a belief of the Greeks. ]]> 2018-03-26 17:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212104 Oedipus Rex ethan_corbijn https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212148 1. Setting in Greece Thebes 
2. The king is unfolded as a murderer
3. Jocasta is the queen 
4. The language was in Ancient Greek
5. First performed in 429 BC

Antigone
1. This was written by Sophecles
2. First performance in 442 BC
3. Antigone will end up dying alone
4. She was the daughter of Oedipus
5. It is considered a tragic hero play

]]> 2018-03-26 17:43:47 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212148 Facts about the Plays emelia_chatfield https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212375 Oedipus Rex

1. author · Sophocles
2. language · Ancient Greek
3.type of work · Play
4. genre · Antigone and Oedipus the King are tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus is difficult to classify.
5.language · Ancient Greek
6. time and place written · Antigone is believed to have been written around 441 b.c., Oedipus the King around 430 b.c., and Oedipus at Colonus sometime near the end of Sophocles’ life in 406–405 b.c. The plays were all written and produced in Athens, Greece.


Antigone

1. First performance was during 442 BC.
2.  The theoretical essence of the play is the conflict between individual conscience and the power of the state. 
3. There was an adaptation of this play, it was done during 1961.
4.  Antigone is both the daughter and the sister of Oedipus 
5. A playwright by Sophocles 
]]> 2018-03-26 17:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212375 Facts nathaniel_alperi https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212617 Oedipus Rex 
1. It is one of the first tragic hero books. 
2. It's first performance was in 429 B.C. 
3. It is written by the playwright Sophocles.  
4. The setting takes place in Thebes. 
5. It is acted out in Greek. 
Antigone 
1.She was the daughter of Oedipus Rex. 
2. It is considered a Tragic hero play. 
3. This play was written by Sophocles and was first performed in 442. 

]]> 2018-03-26 17:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212617 Oediupus Rex Antigone kaya_ables https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212622 Oedipus Rex is Athenian Tragedy
Debut in 429 BC
Thebes is the setting

Antigone debut in 442 BC
Written in Ancient Greek
Written by Sophocles]]> 2018-03-26 17:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212622 Plays mateo_ramirez1 https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212741 1. Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC.
2. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply Oedipus, as it is referred to by Aristotle in the Poetics.
3. It is thought to have been renamed Oedipus Tyrannus to distinguish it from Oedipus at Colonus.
4. In antiquity, the term “tyrant” referred to a ruler, but it did not necessarily have a negative connotation.
5. Of his three Theban plays that have survived, and that deal with the story of Oedipus, Oedipus Rex was the second to be written. 

1. Antigone is the daughter/sister of Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta. ]]> 2018-03-26 17:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212741 Oedipus Rex & Antigone` brianna_durandisse https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212950 Oedipus Rex:
1.Also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King
2. An Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC.
3. Oedipus the King unfolds as a 🤬 mystery, a political thriller, and a psychological whodunit. 
4. Throughout this mythic story of patricide and 🤬, Sophocles emphasizes the irony of a man determined to track down, expose, and punish an assassin, who turns out to be himself.
5. The climax of Oedipus the King occurs when Oedipus learns, quite contrary to his expectations, that he is the man responsible for the plague that has stricken Thebes—he is the man who killed his father and slept with his mother.

Antigone:

1. Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.
2.It is the third of the three Theban plays chronologically, but was the first written.
3.
]]> 2018-03-26 17:45:19 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246212950 Oedipus Rex & Antigone by SophoclesOedipus Rex: mackenzie_falla https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246213690 Oedipus Rex is an Athenian Tragedy.
The first performance was in 429 BC.
The setting is in Thebes.

Antigone: 

The first performance was in 442 BC.
The original language was Ancient Greek]]> 2018-03-26 17:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246213690 Oedipus Rex and Antigone otis_mcduffie https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246214469 1. The first performance of Oedipus rex was in 429 BC
2. The first performance of Antigone was first played in 442.
3. Both plays are tragedies
4. Antigone was originally written in Ancient Greek 
5. Also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King]]> 2018-03-26 17:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246214469 Oedipus Rex" & "Antigone" by Sophocles key facts keddie_vales https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246214747 1.Antigone is believed to have been written around 441 b.c., Oedipus the King around 430 b.c., and Oedipus at Colonus sometime near the end of Sophocles’ life in 406–405 b.c. The plays were all written and produced in Athens, Greece.]]> 2018-03-26 17:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246214747 Sophocles play facts william_walker1 https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246215038 Oedipus Rex
1.  Is a tragedy.
2. first performed  429 BC
3. follows Oedipus has become the king of Thebes
4. Tyrant did not have a negative connotation in antiquity.
5. Finish by Oedipus gouging his eye out because of his patricide and in,cest.
Antigone
1.  Is a tragedy.
2. written in 441 BC
3.
]]> 2018-03-26 17:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246215038 Oedipus Rex & Antigone` annabelle_flambert https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246215773
  • Antigone presents a different argument to this idea.  The first implication is the word anti in her name.  Her name suggests that she opposes a belief of the Greeks. 
  • The first performance was in 442 BC.
  • Fate and free will are the central themes of Antigone.
  • There was an adaptation of this play, it was done during 1961.
  • Of his three Theban plays that have survived, and that deal with the story of Oedipus, Oedipus Rex was the second to be written. 




    • ]]>     2018-03-26 17:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246215773     marius_lambert https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246216273  oedipus rex  was in 429
    antigone firt played in 442
    play s tragedies
    ancient greek
    they wer mistary.

    ]]>     2018-03-26 17:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246216273     5 Facts Each: megan_guthrie https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246217579 Oedipus Rex:
    - Blinded himself
    -Married Mother
    -Killed Father
    -429 b.c.
    - Political thriller
    Antigone:
    - 442 b.c.
    -Greek Language
    - Athens, Greece
    - Both Daughter and Sister( de mom)]]>     2018-03-26 17:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246217579     Oedipus Rex & Antigone conor_cameron https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246319330 1.  Oedipus Rex epitomizes the concept of fate. 
    2. From his early birth it was foretold that he would his father and marry his mother.  Then he would be the father of his siblings.
    3. Antigone presents a different argument to this idea.  The first implication is the word anti in her name.  Her name suggests that she opposes a belief of the Greeks. 
    4. Antigone presents a different argument to this idea.  The first implication is the word anti in her name.  Her name suggests that she opposes a belief of the Greeks. 
    5.Antigone presents a different argument to this idea.  The first implication is the word anti in her name.  Her name suggests that she opposes a belief of the Greeks. ]]>     2018-03-27 00:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_OedipusRexAndAntigone_2018/wish/246319330