Across
- 3. The audience knows more than the characters know
- 5. Oedipus' daughter
- 6. Oedipus' adoptive mother
- 7. A group of Theban men who speak/sing for the audience
- 8. A deficiency in the hero that causes his downfall
- 9. Oedipus' current wife
- 11. The current king of Thebes
- 14. The opposite of free will
- 15. The author of the play, Oedipus
Down
- 1. The protagonist of the play who has sympathetic qualities, but who ultimately suffers a great downfall
- 2. Oedipus's brother-in-law
- 4. The blind prophet
- 7. The mountain where Oedipus was left as a child
- 8. A type of Greek play where the hero experiences great sorrow
- 10. A priest or priestess who makes predictions
- 12. Oedipus' adoptive father
- 13. The former king of Thebes