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| The state of being fertile (or fecund), fruitful in offspring or vegetation |
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| Incapable of being dominated, unconquerable |
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| Lit: double-ness; deceit, deception, (think: two-faced) |
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| Senility, second childhood |
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| Curses (close to "Execrations") |
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| Being notoriously without moderation |
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| To raise trivial and frivolous objection |
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| To berate, condemn, use abusive language |
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| A warning or indication of the future |
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| Heavenly (as in "the heavens", universal, night sky) |
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| 1. The idea of being merciful 2. Mild or kind |
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| Firm, unyielding (like a diamond) |
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| Hatefully or shockingly evil |
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| Easily moved to excessive anger |
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| Incapable of being mitigated (made less harsh or severe) |
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| Act of freeing someone from guilt (Think: mea culpa) |
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| One that serves as an example or ideal |
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| Elevation to divine status (Ex. Death of Oedipus --> Raised as demigod) |
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| The kindly ones (because they know there are some exceptions to rules) |
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| Furies [would get you if you committed 1/3 crimes] |
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| Father of Greek drama; wrote about Orestia (story of Orestes) |
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| If you find a religious place to save yourself from what's after you, the people from there must help you |
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| 1. Important hero 2. Universally regarded as positive 3. Noble, honorable 4. Trustworthy, so Oedipus could have faith in him |
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| "...and all the lot I bore in misery, not through any choice of mine..." |
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| "I shall reverence not repudiate his gift" |
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| "I shan't touch your man. She is mine." |
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| "And now I'll tell you father why I came: I'm driven out, an exile from my land." |
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| "If there's any truth in prophecy the oracles have said that victory lies with those who win you to their side." |
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| "I come with a gift: this is my battered body." |
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| "Who ever heard of joy or love by force?" |
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| "We are banished you and I, both us are beggars." |
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| "Nevertheless you ought to know that Creon's on his way to see if he can use you." |
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| "Because, dear children, he himself has charged me not to let a single being approach these precincts" |
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| "It was not easy, children, that I know, and yet one little word can change all pain. That word is LOVE." |
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| "I pronounce that this neglect of you convicts me as the most delinquent thing on earth" |
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| "If that's the kind of triumph you want, trampling over friends and country, those whose mandate, I though King, am trying to carry out -- then have that triumph |
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