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Oedipus at colonus5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Oedipus takes this as auspicious, because Apollo’s original prophecy, in addition to predicting that he would kill his father and marry his mother, also revealed that he would die at a place sacred to the Furies and that he would be a blessing for the land in which he is buried. The blind Oedipus, exiled from his native Thebes and reduced to a life of wandering led by his daughter Antigone, arrives at the town of Colonus, where he is at first told to move on because the ground there is sacred to the Erinyes or Furies (also known as the Eumenides). It describes the end of the blinded Oedipus‘ tragic life at the town of Colonus near Athens.ĭramatis Personae – Characters OEDIPUS, banished King of ThebesĬREON, brother of Jocasta, now reigning at Thebes ![]() It is Sophocles’ last surviving play, written shortly before his death in 406 BCE, and the last written of his three Theban plays (the other two being “Oedipus the King” and “Antigone”: in the timeline of the Theban plays, however, the events of “Oedipus at Colonus” occur after “Oedipus the King” and before “Antigone”). ![]() “Oedipus at Colonus” (Gr: “Oidipous epi Kolono” or “Oedipus epi Kotonoi” Lat: “Oedipus Coloneus”) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. Introduction | Synopsis | Analysis | Resources Introduction
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