Oedipus at Colonus
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Oedipus at Colonus is the second of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson at the Festival o
Oedipus at Colonus by Fulchran-Jean Harriet
Oedipus at Colonus, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, 1788, Dallas Museum of Art
Antigone (Sophocles play)
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Antigone is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in either 442 or 440 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second-oldest surviving play of S
Oedipus at Colonus
…Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus Rex and before Antigone; however, it was the last of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be written. The play describes the end of Oedipus's tragic life. Legends differ as to…
Antigone in front of the dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras 1865
Antigone being captured and arrested for the burial of her brother, Polynices. Sébastien Norblin, 1825.