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
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In Greek mythology, Antigone was a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She was the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother was either Jocasta or, in
Antigone tied on an Apulian red-figure amphora by the Darius Painter, ca. 350-320 BC, Altes Museum
Oedipus and Antigone by Aleksander Kokular (1825–1828), National Museum, Warsaw.
Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras, National Gallery, Athens, Greece (1865)
Antigone leads the blind Oedipus away on a mural from Delos, 1st century BC.