Eteocles, the younger son, supported by Creon, takes over the throne. In the meantime, Oedipus' sons - each claiming the right to the throne of Thebes - prepare to go to war. After years of wandering with his daughter Antigone, Oedipus arrives at a grove in Colonus, a village near Athens. In the second play of the trilogy, Oedipus is exiled from Thebes. The story line continues in Oedipus at Colonus. The first play in the characters’ lives is Oedipus the King, which is the story of a man unwittingly moving ever closer to the unhappy fate he is struggling mightily to avoid. Each is complete in itself, and ancient audiences knew the rough outlines of the plot from long oral traditions that preceded formal theatrical productions of these stories.Īntigone flowed first from Sophocles’ hand and was seen first by ancient audiences, but it comes last in the lives of the characters, wrapping up the final disasters of their histories. The three plays can be studied together or individually.
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