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	Oedipus at Colonus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oedipus at Colonus (also Oidipous at Kolonos) is one of the three Theban plays of Sophocles.
		Theseus then informs Oedipus that a suppliant has come to the temple of Poseidon and wishes to speak with him; it is Oedipus' son Polyneices, who has been banished from Thebes by his brother Eteocles.
		Here, Oedipus discusses his fate as related by the oracle, and claims that he is not fully guilty because his crimes of murder and incest were committed in ignorance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_at_Colonus (410 words)

	Oedipus the King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oedipus went on to solve the Sphinx's riddle, "What uses four legs in the morning, two in the day, and three at night?"--the answer is Man--and his reward for this is the kingdom of Thebes, and the hand of Jocasta; again, neither recognizes the other.
		Oedipus is mentioned once in the Iliad of Homer: "Mecisteus went once to Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, to attend his funeral, and he beat all the people of Cadmus." (Book 23, ln 756).
		There is also a reference to Oedipus in the Odyssey of Homer; when Odysseus goes down to the underworld he meets Epicaste the mother and wife of Oedipus, and the story of Oedipus is then briefly told (11.271-280).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_the_King (772 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus Study Guide / Oedipus at Colonus Summary
		Oedipus is led into a grove of trees by his daughter Antigone and remembers his tormented past.
		Oedipus asks Antigone where they are, and she states that they are right outside of the city of Athens.
		Oedipus repeats the same idea, saying also that his parents had planned to murder him in the first place by maiming his ankles and leaving him outside in the woods to die, and he is thus a victim of his parents and of the gods alike.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/oac/PART1.htm (932 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oedipus at Colonus is the second of the Theban plays chronologically but the last to be written, produced in 404 bce, the year after Sophocles' death.
		Colonus, this suburb of Athens, is ruled by Theseus.
		According to a messenger reporting to the Chorus, Oedipus prepared for his death, bid good-bye to his daughters, and magically disappeared in front of Theseus.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/oedipus_colonus.html (334 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus
		Colonus was one of the twelve separate communities that were a part of the mountainous countryside surrounding Athens, and which were later fused into the single Athenian city-state by Theseus, the national hero and king of Athens, a generation before the legendary battle of Troy.
		Oedipus' loyal daughter, Antigone, follows him into exile and, later, Creon, who is the new regent of Thebes.
		Sophocles was born at Colonus and it is said that he wrote Oedipus at Colonus just before he died at the age of ninety.
	www.sixthatpenn.com /oedipus_at_colonus.htm (1845 words)

	OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
		Father, toil-worn Oedipus, the towers that 15 ring the polis, to judge by sight, are far off; and this place is sacred [hieros], to judge from its appearance: laurel, olive, and vine grow thick-set; and a feathered crowd of nightingales makes music within.
		Feel sure, daughter of Oedipus, that we pity you and him alike 255 for your misfortune; but dreading the punishment of the gods, we could not say anything beyond what we have now said to you.
		Oedipus, in the name of your ancestral gods, listen to me! Hide it, and consent to return to the city and the house of your ancestors, after bidding a kind farewell to this polis.
	www.uh.edu /~cldue/texts/oc.html (13746 words)

	Background Materials to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Then, upon arriving at Thebes, Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx (a monster who was killing and eating Thebans), thereby ridding the city of the monster and winning the hand of the recently widowed Queen Jocasta as well as the kingship.
		But as the play proceeds, Oedipus begins to suspect that he may have killed Laius and, finally, it is revealed, by the testimony of the old shepherd who had been given the infant Oedipus to expose, that Oedipus is in fact the son and killer of Laius, and the son and husband of Jocasta.
		Oedipus walks by himself into the middle of the grove of the Furies where only Theseus is allowed to witness Oedipus' final end.
	artemis.austincollege.edu /acad/hwc22/Greek/readings/OedipusCol.html (1432 words)

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		OEDIPUS Stern-visaged queens, since coming to this land First in your sanctuary I bent the knee, Frown not on me or Phoebus, who, when erst He told me all my miseries to come, Spake of this respite after many years, Some haven in a far-off land, a rest Vouchsafed at last by dread divinities.
		OEDIPUS Then may the gods ne'er quench their fatal feud, And mine be the arbitrament of the fight, For which they now are arming, spear to spear; That neither he who holds the scepter now May keep this throne, nor he who fled the realm Return again.
		OEDIPUS I cannot go, disabled as I am Doubly, by lack of strength and lack of sight; But one of you may do it in my stead; For one, I trow, may pay the sacrifice Of thousands, if his heart be leal and true.
	classics.mit.edu /Sophocles/colonus.pl.txt (10957 words)

	Oedipus_at_Colonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After Oedipus blinded himself and left Thebes to wander the countryside with Antigone as his guide, and Ismene stayed at Thebes and brought messages to her father from time to time.
		Oedipus at Colonus when he was ninety and died before it was produced.
		This is Oedipus in search of a home and reminiscent of Demeter’s wanderings that brought her to a “home away from home” with the family at Eleusis.
	www.greek-myth.com /Mythology/Oedipus/oedipus_at_colonus.htm (2634 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus (from Sophocles) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In Oedipus at Colonus (Greek Oidipous epi Kolono) the old, blind Oedipus has spent many years wandering in exile after being rejected by his sons and the city of Thebes.
		Homer related that Oedipus' wife and mother hanged herself when the truth of their relationship became known, though Oedipus apparently continued to rule at Thebes until his death.
		The Oedipus Trilogy: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-30148 (754 words)

	Oedipus
		When Oedipus was grown, he learned from the Delphic oracle that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
		Oedipus is guided in his later wanderings by his faithful daughter, Antigone.
		In the legend of Oedipus, Creon is the...
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0836390 (308 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus
		OEDIPUS It needs no god to tell what's plain to sense.
		OEDIPUS I have my darlings, and if death should come, Death were not wholly bitter with you near.
		OEDIPUS That voice, O king, grates on a father's ears; I have come to loathe it.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/soph/colonus.htm (10902 words)

	Summary of OEDIPUS AT COLONUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Creon attempted to kidnap Antigone in order to force Oedipus' hand, but she was rescued by Theseus.
		Polynices admitted to Oedipus that he should have remained by his father's side, but Oedipus was unforgiving.
		The gods themselves summoned Oedipus to his mysterious end in the grove, a scene witnessed only by the great Theseus, who swore never to reveal it.
	faculty.cbhs.org /jbaker/summary_of_oedipus_at_colonus.htm (311 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus Notes and Questions
		As you read, notice the irony that Oedipus, who was once so despised, is now courted by everyone in Thebes because of the new prophecy of the benefits he can bring a city.
		After he dies, Oedipus becomes a hero-daimon whose "presence in the soil [is] feared by some and thanked by others" (Knox 265).
		Sophocles wrote Oedipus at Colonus when he was quite old, just as Athens was about to suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/colonus.html (542 words)

	Sophocles - Free Online Library
		Sophocles was active until the end of his life, and passed away shortly after the production of Oedipus at Colonus in 405 B.C., aged ninety-one.
		Oedipus, now blind, and Antigone, his guide, arrive at Colonus.
		Without knowing it, Oedipus kills his father, marries his mother, produces a child, and blinds himself when he figures out what he has done.
	sophocles.thefreelibrary.com (291 words)

	Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
		Oedipus, the blind and banished King of Thebes, has come in his wanderings to Colonus, a deme of Athens, led by his daughter Antigone.
		But Oedipus, instructed by an oracle that he had reached his final resting-place, refuses to stir, and the stranger consents to go and consult the Elders of Colonus (the Chorus of the Play).
		Long-suffering father, Oedipus, the towers That fence the city still are faint and far; But where we stand is surely holy ground; A wilderness of laurel, olive, vine; Within a choir or songster nightingales Are warbling.
	www.online-literature.com /sophocles/oedipus/2 (10179 words)

	Amazon.com: The Three Theban Plays: Books: Sophocles,Robert Fagles,Bernard MacGregor Walke Knox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time.
		Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
		Oedipus is out to find the man bringing a curse on Thebes, only to discover he is the curse.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140444254?v=glance (1568 words)

	Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oedipus and Antigone arrive at Colonus at the sanctuary of the Eumenides.
		Theseus arrives and announces that Oedipus died as was fated, and asked his tomb remain a secret known only to Athens' kings.
		Sophocles was born at Colonus, a hamlet suburb of Athens.
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/summaries/oedipuscol.html (409 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus
		Theban cavalry defeat in Colonus, we think, about the time of the play, in 407 BC: in any case, Thebes and Athens are certainly at war at the time the play was written
		Creon: in the Oedipus the King, Sophocles makes Creon a "good guy": but in Oedipus at Colonus, he is clearly a "bad guy": since Athens is now at war with Thebes, but probably was not at the time that the Oedipus the King was written
		Oedipus is transformed gradually during the course of the play, from beggar to hero
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/oedipus_colonus.html (1053 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus
		Athens, Oedipus, and Sophocles (at 90) near the end.
		Prurient interest: the chorus, and Creon, force Oedipus to discuss his deeds.
		Oedipus will not want to die, and will be mourned.
	www.siu.edu /~dfll/classics/Johnson/Greeks/Lectures/oc.htm (183 words)

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	Sophocles at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SOPHOCLES (495—406 B.C.), Greek tragic poet, was born at Colonus in the neighbourhood of Athens.
		Influential Themes of Oedipus Rex -- Examines the themes of hubris, the consequences of thoughtless actions, and the connection between a king and his people in Oedipus Rex.
		Oedipus Rex and Fate -- Fate and its significance in the text.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Sophocles (877 words)

	OEDIPUS AT COLONUS CHARACTERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		OEDIPUS: The man who was once King of Thebes is now a blind beggar who travels with his daughter (sister) Antigone.
		ANTIGONE: The daughter (sister) of Oedipus, she travels with him, and ends up leading him to Colonus.
		CREON: Enemy of Oedipus from previous play, comes to capture Oedipus and use him as a good luck charm.
	sturtevant.com /alex/ochar.htm (123 words)

	OEDIPUS AT COLONUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		OEDIPUS AT COLONUS is the second tragedy in the Oedipus Cycle, and was written in 406 B.C.E. by the great Greek dramatist Sophocles.
		The play is the least familiar out of the three, but is by no means less important than the others.
		This page will provide a brief outline of the play, by sketching out the plot and going over the characters involved the piece.
	sturtevant.com /alex/oedipus.htm (66 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The scene is Colonus, a suburb of Athens, in front of a sacred grove of the Eumenides, patron goddesses of Athens.
		The stage is bare, except for a large rock downstage left that is used as a seat.
		OEDIPUS It may not be as easy as you think.
	www.loyno.edu /~mcclain/ocolonus.htm (4413 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Theban Plays: "King Oedipus","Oedipus at Colonus","Antigone" (Classics ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"King Oedipus" tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has committed and who then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself.
		With profound insights into the human condition, it is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath.
		"Oedipus at Colonus" provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while "Antigone" depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman rules by her conscience and a king too confident of his own authority.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140440038 (548 words)

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		It begins with the arrival of Oedipus in Colonus after years of wandering; it ends with Antigone setting off toward her own fate in Thebes.
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	Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
		Creon desires to bury Oedipus on the confines of Thebes so as to avoid the pollution and yet offer due rites at his tomb.
		Ismene tells him of the latest oracle and interprets to him its purport, that some day the Theban invaders of Athens will be routed in a battle near the grave of Oedipus.
		The Thebans sprung from the Dragon’s teeth sown by Cadmus.
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