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28 Cards in this Set
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Sphinx and her riddle
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part woman, lion, bird. calamaties in the city can be solving the sphinx' riddle. anyone who fails will die and the answer is anthros. Oedipus defeats her and she jumps to her death
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Sophocles
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writer of
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Laius
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king of . father of oedipus. receives oracle that his son will take his mother and kill him. so he puts his son on a mountain to die
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Jocasta
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wife of Laius and mother of Oedipus
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Polybus
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Merope
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Oedipus and the meaning of his name
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"swollen feet" he is bounded by his feet. And the riddle has to do with feet. from 4 to 2 to 3
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Tiresias
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shadow figure
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Creon
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Oedipus Tyrannos (Oedipus Rex)
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rex means king (hereditary rule) and tyrannos means tyrant(not hereditary rule). Oedipus rules even though people don't know that he is actually the son of Lauis. He solves the riddle and thus gets to rule the kingdom
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hamartia
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error of a hero, not his tragic flaw
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hybris
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arrogance
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anagnorisis
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recognition of some truth. Oedipus learns that he is the son of Lauis and Jocasta and of his foster paents
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Sigmund Freud
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dreamwork
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parallels between myth and dream
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psychoanalysis
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latent content
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repression
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manifest content
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Oedipus
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unconscious
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Oedipus complex
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Jocasta
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Polybus
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Merope
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Merope
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Laius
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Contrast between Jung's and Freud's approach to myth
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