Dec 22, 2009
Oedipus at Colonus | Oedipus at Colonus
At a glance:
- Author: Sophocles
- First Published: 401
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: Antiquity
- Setting: Colonus, near Athens
- Principal Characters: Oedipus, Antigone, Ismene, Theseus, Creon, Polynices, Elders of Colonus
- 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
The Story:
Many years had passed since King Oedipus had discovered to his
horror that he had murdered his father and married his mother, with
whom he had had children. After having blinded himself and given up
his royal authority in Thebes, he had been cared for by his
faithful daughters, Antigone and Ismene. When internal strife broke
out in Thebes, Oedipus was believed to be the cause of the trouble
because of the curse the gods had put upon his family, and he was
banished from the city.
He and Antigone wandered far. At last, they came to an olive
grove at Colonus, a...
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