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The Oedipus Trilogy | Oedipus at Colonus Lines 1,193 – 1,645 Summary and Analysis

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Polynices: the son of Oedipus and Jocasta

Summary
Imagining glorious victory for the Athenians and crushing defeat for the enemy, the Chorus describes images of war. The battle-lust ends suddenly, when the Leader tells Oedipus that Ismene and Antigone are in sight.

The two women appear, accompanied by Theseus, their rescuer, and they rush into their father’s embrace. Oedipus thanks Theseus, and praises him in general and Athens in particular for showing a blind, broken old man the first truth and justice he has...



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