Episode 30 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 30: Two Legs in the Afternoon. See what you remember about Oedipus the King and the beginning of the Peloponnesian War by clicking “START” below!
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This character has had metal spikes driven through his/her ankles.
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Oedipus accuses this character of treason.
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Oedipus the King was staged during the opening years of the Peloponnesian War. When did the Peloponnesian War take place?
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After being cast out as a baby by his parents due to a prophecy, Oedipus spent his boyhood and early adulthood raised by the King and Queen of:
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Oedipus’ brother-in-law is called:
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This character prophesies that, “The killer of Laius – that man is here; / Passing for an alien, a sojourner here among us.”
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The play opens with a plague having struck the city of Thebes. Creon proposes that the plague might be lifted if this character’s killer is brought to justice.
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This structure was built between 447 and 432 at the height of Athens’ democratic golden age.
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Pericles’ strategy at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War was:
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Thucydides writes about which historical event that struck Athens in 430 BCE?
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