Main female characters

Team 2

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• Choose a character in the myth of Oedipus
• Write your choice in the table (If you want other topic, feel free to suggest it to your teacher)
• Present the character in the ppt
• Find enigmas about the character
• Don’t forget to cite your sources

Jocasta, queen of Thebes, Layo's wife, Oedipus´s mother

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have a child

Chilld

Ismène

Antigone

Etéocle

Polynice

Oedipe

Jocaste

Laïos

Jocasta, queen and Oedipus' wife, mother of his 4 children

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Jocasti wife of Laious, queen of Thebes.Her son was Oidipus but Delphis said that the child will kill his father and marry his mother so they abandoned to Kytheronas. And they give it to Polybos and Meropi.One day in Thybes Oidipus kill his father and solve the mystery of Sphinx and marry his mother.She has four children Eteocles, Polyniki, Antigoni, Ismini. Then she learned that her father was her son.

Natalija, 1rst junior high school of Markopoulo

Merope

She was a Dorian who was married to King Polybus of Corinth, which made her queen and adoptive mother of Oedipus.

When King Laius of Thebes, fearing what was predicted by an oracle, abandoned his newborn son to die on Mount Cithaeron, Polybus's men found him and handed him over to Merope, who named him Oedipus after him. his swollen feet and raised him as his own.

Antigone

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In Greek mythology, Antigone ,She is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, and the sister of Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices.

The figure of Antigone appears in several Greek tragedies, especially in the one of the same name created by Sophocles in the 5th century BC. C

Disobedience leads Antigone to her own death: she is locked up alive in a tomb, and ends up hanging herself.

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The confrontation between Antigone and Creon over the fate of the remains of Polyneices raises at the same time the conflicts between men and women, between old age and youth, between society and the individual, between human beings and divinity.

We have looked for the information from the official wikipedia page.

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Ismene

Ismene is the daughter of Oedipe and Jocasta, who is also her grand-mother . She is the sister of Antigone, Etéocle and Polynice.

In Oedipus at Colonus, Ismene serves her father mostly as an information gatherer. Unlike Antigone, Ismene has a nearly normal and stable life. She does not serve her father's needs or share his danger daily, as does Antigone. Ismene is continually in her sister's shadow.

In a theatre play, the two sisters will come into disagreement, Ismene preferring to respect the decree promulgated by Creon, their uncle, who became king of Thebes following the death of the two brothers, heirs of Oedipus. This decree forbade granting the corpse of Polynices the ritual of burial in order to punish him for his betrayal.

Ismene

Daughter of Oidypodas and Iokasti. She tried to protect her sister Antigoni not to bury her brother Polynikis because Creon will kill her but she did not manage.

She fell in love with Periklymenos and Athena tell Tydeas to kill her. Tydeas kill her because she had the fortune of Lavthakides.

Joseph, 1rst junior high school

Enigmas

enigma of Antigone:

who is Antigone´s sister?

1. Jocasta
2. Edypous
3. Ismene (true)
4. Aquiles

Enigmas

What are the names of the brothers of Antigone ? (Anaïs)

a.Polynice and Œdipe

b.Eteocle and Polynice (true)

c.Œdipe and Creon

Enigmas

What was the fortune of Ismene?

a.the fortune of Lavdakides (true)

b.being a woman

c.obey her father

Sitography

• How many children did Jocasta have ?
• 5 ( true)
• 8
• 4
• 1