1. Oedipus Rex – 1st dramatic scene and stasimon
Evidence of Oedipus’s HUBRIS
Extended Metaphor – Thebes as a ship
Main theme: Sight vs. Blindness
Dramatic Irony

2. Supplicant(s) / to be suppliant
Begging or making a plea for help from a figure of authority

3. High-coronalled with votive olive boughs

4. Apollo’s other names Delian King, Delian Lord Loxias
Phoebus, King Phoebus
Lycean King
Parnassus (Mount Parnassus)
Pytho, Pythian Temple

5. Oedipus Rex – 2nd dramatic scene and stasimon
Main theme: Sight vs. Blindness
Dramatic Irony
Paradox, Juxtaposition, Oxymoron, etc.

6. Tiresias – the blind prophet
Mythology
Paradox, oxymoron, juxtaposition
Apollo’s second in command
Flight of birds, etc.
oracle, prophet, prophecy, divinity, augury, truth, sooth, soothsayer

7. Be- happening to you/a person
Befall
Begat
Behold
Belie
Beseech
Bespeak
Beleaguer