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Oedipus at Colōnus

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Date: 19960101
Author:M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS

Oedipus at Colōnus ( Oidipous epi Kolōnōi , Lat. Oedipus Colōneus ), Greek tragedy by Sophocles written not long before his death in 406/5 BC, produced in 401 BC by his grandson Sophocles the Younger.

Oedipus , blind and banished from Thebes, has wandered, attended by his daughter Antigonē, to Colonus, a deme of Attica a little north of Athens. He is warned by the inhabitants to leave, but having learnt that this is the locality foretold in an oracle as the place where he will die, refuses to go. Theseus, king of Athens, is appealed to, and assures Oedipus ...

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