Oedipus, the blind and banished King of Thebes, has come in his wanderings to Colonus, a deme of Athens, led by his daughter Antigone. He sits to rest on a rock just within a sacred grove of the Furie...

Oedipus, banished King of Thebes Antigone, his daughter Ismene, his daughter Theseus, King of Athens Creon, brother of Jocasta, now reigning at Thebes Polyneices, elder son of Oedipus Stranger, a nati...

Enter the blind Oedipus led by his daughter, Antigone. Oedipus: Child of an old blind sire, Antigone, What region, say, whose city have we reached? Who will provide today with scanted dole This wander...

The Greek text for the passages marked here and later in the text have been lost. ↩ To avoid the blessing (see line), still a secret, he resorts to a commonplace; literally, “For what generous man is ...