Question

What incident prompts Teiresias to approach Creon and attempt to get him to see the the error of his ways?

a) Teiresia's previous experience with Oedipus, who married his mother and killed his father


b) Haimon offered Teiresias money to change Creon's mind about killing Antigone


c) Teiresias had begun a burnt offering, but the fire had no blaze


d) Teiresia's father had prophesied about Creon many years before

Answer 1

The answer is C
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Answer 2

The correct answer is C) Teiresias had begun a burnt offering but the fire had no blaze.

The incident that prompts Tereisias to approach Creon and attempt to get him to see the error of his ways is Teiresias had begun a burnt offering but the fire had no blaze.

Teiresias offers a sacrifice to the Gods in order to approach Creon and attempt to get him to see the error of his ways is Teiresias had begun a burnt offering but the fire had no blaze. Teiresias and Creo are characters of the novel “Antigone” written by Sophocles in 441 BC. This tragedy is the third part of the other two works of Sophocles: “Oedipus the King” and “Oedipus Colonus”.