Across
- 4. In the beginning of the play, what does Oedipus think the prophet’s claims about him are?
- 8. Who knows about life in the future?
- 9. What city does most of this take place (where Oedipus was born)?
- 11. According to Creon, “a fortune won is often ___.”
- 15. Synonym for chaos and evil.
- 17. Who’s son of Creon?
- 21. According to Chorus, what’s the most unconquerable force?
- 23. What carrion animals could eat up Polyneices’ body as meal?
- 24. Creon buries one of Antigone’s brothers. Who?
- 25. Antigone tells Ismene that she should prove whether she’s a true sister or ___ to their family.
Down
- 1. How can Teiresias be best described?
- 2. What does Haimon commit after finding out Antigone dies?
- 3. Who did Antigone follow?
- 5. How are Antigone and Ismene related?
- 6. “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is ___.”
- 7. Who killed Antigone (indirectly)?
- 10. What’s the answer to one of the Sphinx’s riddles that Oedipus was asked to solve/answer?
- 12. What can the play be best classified as?
- 13. What happens to Oedipus after he’s blinded himself?
- 14. According to the messenger, “no man can foretell his ___.”
- 16. Earlier, who does Oedipus claim to be his father?
- 18. Who’s the biological mother of Oedipus?
- 19. What does Oedipus end up doing with his biological father?
- 20. Who wrote Antigone and Oedipus Rex?
- 22. Who first discovers that Antigone tries to bury her brother?