Oedipus at Colonus (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Sophocles
- First Published: 401
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Genres: Drama, Tragedy
- Subjects: Suffering, Murder or homicide, Blindness or blind persons, Exile or expatriates, Marriage, Kings, queens, or royalty, Gods or goddesses, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Greek or Roman times, Horror, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Greece, Athens, ancient, Colonus, ancient
Places Discussed
*Colonus. Ancient Greek city near Athens. In a beautiful grove outside Colonus, Oedipus and his daughter Antigone rest while fleeing from Thebes, from which Oedipus has been banished. Sophocles’ play opens with Antigone describing the grove in detail. She establishes its distance from Athens by observing that the great city’s towers are far off, though visible. The shaded grove is thick with laurel and olive trees, as well as grape vines. This grove might convey a calm to the fugitive Oedipus, but Antigone suspects that the place is sacred to some deity. As...
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