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73 Terms

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“Speak up, old man. Your _____, your _____ — you should speak for the others.”
years / dignity
2
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“Oh my children, the new _____ of ancient _____.”
blood / Thebes
3
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“O Oedipus, _____ of the land, our greatest _____!”
king / power
4
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“Our ship _____ wildly ... Thebes is _____.”
pitches / dying
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“You freed us from the _____, you came to Thebes and cut us loose from the _____ tribute...”
Sphinx / bloody
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“Act now—we beg you, _____ of men, _____ up our city!”
best / raise
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“But _____ as you are, not one is _____ as I.”
sick / sick
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“I _____ for these, my people, far more than I _____ for my own life.”
grieve / fear
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“Apollo commands us now... ‘Pay the _____ back — whoever is _____.’”
killers / responsible
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“I’ll bring it all to _____ _____!”
light / myself
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“Thebes is _____, look, her children stripped of _____.”
dying / pity
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“_____ this man—whoever he may be—never _____ him...”
Banish / shelter
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“O Tiresias, master of all the _____ of our life...”
mysteries
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“Just send me _____. You bear your _____, I’ll bear mine.”
home / burdens
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“You, you _____ of the earth, you’d enrage a heart of _____!”
scum / stone
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“You are the _____, the _____ of the land!”
curse / corruption
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“I say you are the _____ you _____.”
murderer / hunt
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“The _____ with all its _____ lives inside me.”
truth / power
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“This _____ ... this scheming _____ ... seer blind to his craft.”
wizard / quack
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“_____ who now has eyes, _____ who now is rich, he will _____ his way toward a foreign soil, a _____ tapping before him step by step.”
Blind / beggar / grope / stick
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“Zeus and Apollo _____, they _____, the great masters of all the dark and depth of human life.”
know / know
22
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“I hear King Oedipus levels terrible _____ at me.”
charges
23
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“You, _____ to kill me, kill the _____.”
plotting / King
24
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“You’ve lost your sense of _____.”
balance
25
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“_____ alone can bring the just man to _____ — the _____ you can spot in one short _____.”
Time / light / criminal / day
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“No, I want you _____.”
dead
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“Look at you, _____ in yielding, _____ in your rage.”
sullen / brutal
28
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“The world knows my _____.”
fame
29
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“Land of the _____, not a wasteland.”
living
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“See with your own _____.”
eyes
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“First of _____.”
men
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“Equal the _____.”
gods
33
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“Repay _____ with blood.”
blood
34
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“Apollo’s _____.”
champion
35
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“_____ on grief, no end.”
Grief
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“_____ deaths on deaths, no end.”
numberless
37
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“Children dead in the _____.”
womb
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“Life on life goes _____.”
down
39
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“Thebes, city of _____.”
death
40
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“Let me grant your _____.”
prayers
41
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“The one shield, the one _____.”
saviour
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“Who _____ you for this?”
primed
43
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“Oedipus the _____.”
ignorant
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“Each step an _____.”
agony
45
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“Frenzied, racing _____.”
blind
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“His skill, his brilliant _____.”
triumph
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“Hear me out, then judge me on the _____.”
facts
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“Thebes, my _____.”
city
49
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“My city too, not yours _____.”
alone
50
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“It’s perfect _____.”
justice
51
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“I simply didn’t _____!”
know
52
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“I am the _____.”
man
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“Last _____.”
hope
54
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“One man, one _____.”
alone
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“So much for _____.”
prophecy
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“Destiny guides… _____.”
always
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“Pride breeds the _____.”
tyrant
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“Violent _____.”
pride
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“Headlong _____.”
pride
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“Sheer _____.”
doom
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“It’s all _____.”
chance
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“No man can see a day _____.”
ahead
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“Racked with _____.”
anguish
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“Worthless _____.”
prophecies
65
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“Son of _____.”
chance
66
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“Man of _____.”
agony
67
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“Born for _____.”
pain
68
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“I pitied the _____.”
baby
69
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“Oedipus, name for the _____.”
ages
70
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“Wed to pain and _____.”
frenzy
71
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“Time is the great _____.”
healer
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“Rose to _____.”
power
73
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“Telltale ____”

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