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    The document contains questions about the details and themes in the play Antigone by Sophocles. It summarizes key events and ideas, such as: 1) According to Ode 2, those who live without tasting evil and experience happy lives are fortunate. 2) Zeus is described as the god who must not be angered, and he holds power over Olympus. 3) According to the Chorus, being piously devout is considered a virtue in Scene 4. 4) Antigone describes her tomb as her eternal hollow dwelling place and bridal chamber where she will join her people in death in Ode 4.

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    CATINDIG, Leslie Veronica D.

    LIT110/A1
    Assignment 7
    1. According to Ode 2, who is the fortunate man?
    Those who live without tasting evil
    have happy lives—for when the gods
    shake a house to its foundations,
    then inevitable disasters strike,
    falling upon whole families,
    just as a surging ocean swell
    running before cruel Thracian winds
    across the dark trench of the sea
    churns up the deep black sand
    and crashes headlong on the cliffs,
    which scream in pain against the wind.

    2. Who is the god who must not be angered, according to Ode 2?


    Oh Zeus, what human trespasses
    can check your power? Even Sleep,
    who casts his nets on everything,
    cannot master that—nor can the months,
    the tireless months the gods control.
    A sovereign who cannot grow old,
    you hold Olympus as your own,
    in all its glittering magnificence.
    From now on into all future time,
    as in the past, your law holds firm.
    It never enters lives of human beings
    in its full force without disaster.
    3. In Scene 4, according to the Chorus, what is considered a virtue?
    To be piously devout shows reverence,
    but powerful men, who in their persons
    incorporate authority, cannot bear
    anyone to break their rules. Hence, you die
    because of your own selfish will.

    4. According to Ode 4, who was locked away in a brazen vault?


    ANTIGONE:
    Oh my tomb and bridal chamber—
    my eternal hollow dwelling place,
    where I go to join my people. Most of them
    have perished—Persephone has welcomed them
    among the dead. I’m the last one, dying here
    the most evil death by far, as I move down
    before the time allotted for my life is done.

    5. In Scene 5, what is it that Creon claims all prophets love?


    The tribe of prophets—
    all of them—are fond of money

    6. The Choragos and the Chorus pray to a "god of many names". Give at
    least two names.
    O Bacchus—you who dwell
    in the bacchants’ mother city Thebes,
    beside Ismenus’ flowing streams,
    on land sown with the teeth
    of that fierce dragon. . .
    . . . And the hot-tempered child of Dryas,
    king of the Edonians, was put in prison,
    closed up in the rocks by Dionysus,
    for his angry mocking of the god.

    7. Who does the Messenger claim is a "walking dead man"?


    For Creon, in my view, was once a man
    we all looked up to. For he saved the state,
    this land of Cadmus, from its enemies.
    He took control and reigned as its sole king—
    and prospered with the birth of noble children.
    Now all is gone. For when a man has lost
    what gives him pleasure, I don’t include him
    among the living—he’s a breathing corpse.

    8. Creon and the Messenger were praying to the gods ___________and


    __________while bathing what was left of Polyneices' body.
    Polyneices’ corpse, still unlamented,
    was lying there, the greatest distance off,
    torn apart by dogs. We prayed to Pluto
    and to Hecate, goddess of the road,
    for their good will and to restrain their rage.
    We gave the corpse a ritual wash, and burned
    what was left of it on fresh-cut branches.

    9. Who "bore the gods' poisoning anger for his pride"?


    And the hot-tempered child of Dryas,
    king of the Edonians, was put in prison,
    closed up in the rocks by Dionysus,
    for his angry mocking of the god.
    There the dreadful flower of his rage
    slowly withered, and he came to know
    the god who in his frenzy he had mocked
    with his own tongue.

    10. Who said: The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for
    corpse, flesh of your own flesh."
    TEIRESIAS:
    Then understand this well—you will not see
    the sun race through its cycle many times
    before you lose a child of your own loins,
    a corpse in payment for these corpses.

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