Packet N: Tossup 2

An alternate version of the events of this play is depicted in the Lille Stesichorus, whose most complete fragment is a “Queen’s speech” that occurs after the events of this play. (-5[1])This play never describes a “cryptic song” that causes a group of people to “put aside something we found obscure,” and which a character later describes as overcoming with “wits” instead of “birds.” The “irrationality” of this play is argued to be “outside” the tragedy in Aristotle’s Poetics, (10[1])which uses (-5[1])this play to explain the structure and superiority (10[1])of tragedies. (10[2])In this play, (10[1]-5[1])the prophet Tiresias (10[3]-5[2])returns (10[1]-5[1])an insult (10[1])by declaring (10[1]-5[2])“you have your eyesight, (10[3])and you do not see” (10[4])foreshadowing (10[1])the protagonist’s (10[2]-5[1])loss of sight. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[3])name this (10[1])play (10[1])by Sophocles whose title (10[1])character (10[1])discovers he did not escape his fate of marrying (10[1])his mother (10[1])and murdering his father. ■END■ (10[6])

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