Oedipus at Colonus | Oedipus at Colonus

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Author: Sophocles
First Published: 401
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Tragedy
Time of Work: Remote antiquity
Setting: Colonus, near Athens
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

Oedipus (EHD-ih-puhs), the former king of Thebes, now a wanderer, blind and in rags, because he had been fated unwittingly to murder his father and marry his mother. After the suicide of his wife and mother, Jocasta, Oedipus, who had blinded himself in the moment of anguish that came with his full realization of who he was and what he had done, had lived for a time quietly in Thebes until his banishment by the regent Creon, his brother-in-law, with the acquiescence of his sons, Polynices and Eteocles. During his years of wandering, he has endured hardship...

Oedipus at Colonus | Oedipus at Colonus

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