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Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom under what circumstances) and significance of the following quotation from Oedipus the King: (4-6 good sentences):                                                    It was a prophet’s task and plainly you had no such gift of prophecy from birds nor otherwise from any god  to glean a word of knowledge.  But I came Oedipus, who knew nothing, and I stopped her. I solved the riddle by my wit alone. Mine was no knowledge got from birds.  And now you would expel me, because you think that you will find a place by Creon’s throne.  I think you will be sorry, both you and your accomplice, for your plot  

Establish the context (who is speaking, what is happening to whom under what circumstances, etc.) and explain the significance of the following quotation from the Aeneid (4-6 good sentences): Now turn your eyes this wayand behold these people, your own Roman people.Here is Caesar and all the line of Iulussoon to venture under the sky’s great arch.Here is the man, he’s here! Time and againyou’ve heard his coming promised—Caesar Augustus!Son of a god, he will bring back the Age of Goldto the Latian fields where Saturn once held sway,

What news from the messenger from Corinth bring to Oedipus?

Establish the context (who is speaking, what is happening to whom under what circumstances, etc.) and explain the significance of the following quotation from the Aeneid (4-6 good sentences): My own fate and the deadly crimes of that Spartan whorehave plunged me in this hell. Look at the souvenirs she left me!And how we spent that last night, lost in deluded joys,you know. Remember it we must, and all too well.When the fatal horse mounted over our steep walls,its weighted belly teeming with infantry in arms—she led the Phrygian women round the city, feigningthe orgiastic rites of Bacchus, dancing, shriekingbut in their midst she shook her monstrous torch,a flare from the city heights, a signal to the Greeks.

Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following quotation from the Aeneid (4-6 good sentences):   You’ve made me see my son’s death with my own eyes, defiled a father’s sight with a son’s blood.  You say you’re Achilles’ son? You lie!  Achilles never treated his enemy Priam so.  No, he honored a suppliant’s rights, he blushed to betray my trust, he restored my Hector’s bloodless corpse for burial, send me safely home to the land I rule!”

Why is Iarbas angry with Dido?

Identify the speaker, then explain the context and the significance of these lines from the Aeneid: (4-6 good sentences):    You’re running away–from me?  Oh, I pray you by these tears, by the faith in your right hand– what else have I left myself in all my pain? by our wedding vows, the marriage we began, if I deserve some decency from you now, if anything mine has ever won your heart, pity a great house about to fall, I pray you, if prayers have any place–reject this scheme of yours! Thanks to you, the Numidian warlords hate me, even my own Tyrians rise against me.

This god’s oracle is located at the “Pythian temple” in Delphi.  

This city is ridden with a plague at the beginning of Oedipus the King: there is a blight on all the crops, the women are dying in labor, and the cattle sicken and die in the pasture.

Oedipus’ brother-in-law, he brings back the news from the oracle:  “to drive out a pollution from our land,”