Directions: Paste these events in the order they occur in Oedipus Rex (from 1 to 18).
Just write the numbers down from first to last

1.Oedipus promises to save the city.

2.Oedipus briefly explains the city’s situation as well as Apollo’s advice. He asks Teiresias for help.

3.Oedipus summons and questions a servant who escaped murder at the crossroads where Laius was killed.

4.Oedipus talks to a priest, tells him not to worry and lets him know that Creon, Oedipus’s brother-in-law, is off seeking the advice of Apollo.

5.Jocasta has revealed that her son was prophesied to kill his father. Oedipus has revealed that he was prophesied to kill his father; no one finds this remotely suspicious.

6.Oedipus, now even more enraged, accuses Creon and Teiresias of framing him in order to seize the throne.

7.Creon returns and Oedipus learns that in order to rid the city of the curse, the murderer of the former King--Laius--must be discovered and expelled from Thebes.

8.Oedipus threatens Creon with death.

9.Oedipus tells Jocasta that as a child, a man once told him that his supposed mother and father (King and Queen of Corinth) were not his real parents. It was also prophesied that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother.

10.Teiresias informs Oedipus that it was he (Oedipus) who killed Laius.
11.Oedipus curses the murderer and demands information from anyone who knows about the crime.

12.Oedipus emerges from his palace at Thebes to see what’s up. He’s aware that the city is under a curse.

13.Jocasta tells Oedipus prophecies are bogus, citing a prophecy that Laius would be murdered by his own son. In retrospect, that was a poor example.

14.Oedipus worried he might have murdered Laius, promptly freaks out.

15.Oedipus also reveals that he killed several men in a small incident at a crossroads.
16.He hopes to find out from the servant whether Laius’s murderers were many or just one man. If it was a sole murderer, that will confirm Oedipus’s guilt.

17.Oedipus informs the Chorus that he’s called Teireias for advice
Oedipus talks to his wife Jocasta about what’s going on after Creon leaves.

18.Oedipus is enraged by Teiresias’s reluctance to talk and demands that he speak whether he likes it or not.