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Oedipus the King, by Sophocles

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Can you put these events in the life of Oedipus in order? Number them:

_____ Oedipus leaves Corinth forever

_____ Oedipus is born

_____ An oracle tells Laius that his child will grow up to kill him

_____ The baby Oedipus is given to King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth

_____ Oedipus kills Laius

_____ Oedipus goes to see the oracle at Delphi

_____ Crops fail, people suffer, and the citizens of Thebes gather to ask King Oedipus for his help

_____ Antigone and Ismene are born

_____ A drunken man in Corinth tells Oedipus that his “parents” are not really his parents

_____ A servant has too much pity to kill the baby Oedipus, and gives him to a shepherd instead

_____ A messenger comes from Corinth to tell Oedipus that Polybus is dead

_____ Laius gives the baby Oedipus to a servant to leave on Mt. Cithaeron to die

_____ Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx, and saves Thebes

_____ Creon: “Time alone can bring the just man to light—the criminal you can spot in one short day.”

_____ Jocaste kills herself

_____ Tiresias tells Oedipus he will suffer one day for his actions

_____ Oedipus grows up in Corinth

_____ Oedipus pokes out his eyes with Jocaste’s brooches

_____ Oedipus marries Jocaste and is crowned king of Thebes

_____ Laius and Jocaste are married

_____ The Chorus says: “Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.”