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1. What martial (war-related) terms does the chorus use in reference to the sun (see lines 1-7)?
3. What words does the chorus use in lines 14-20 that demonstrate the chorus’s belief that Polyneices
was hungry for bloodshed?
4. In lines 19-20, Thebes is compared to what animal?
5. In line 21, the choragus states that God was against Polyneices. Polyneices is described as “braying.”
What animal brays? God, on the other hand, is compared to what natural force (line 25)?
7. What positive words does the chorus use in lines 39-43 to summarize the happy outcome of the
battle?