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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-29 08:51:11.
(Language: English)
The best known of Sophocles plays, are the 3 which tell the tragic story of Oedipus and his family, cursed by fate. In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus as King of Thebes, investigates the murder of his predecessor King Laius in order to remove a curse from his city, but in so doing uncovers the terrible truth about himself and his past. In Oedipus Colonae, Oedipus, now an old man, driven from Thebes and reduced to begging, is granted sanctuary with his daughers at last by Theseus, King of Athens, just as his sons are about to begin their war over Thebes (the "Seven Against Thebes" war), each wishing the blessing of the father they have rejected. The final play (although it was written and performed long before Sophocles wrote the other two) is Antigone, in which Oedipus daughter, following her brothers' deaths in the conflict of the Seven Against Thebes, sets out to bury Polynices in defiance of an edict from their uncle Creon (now King of Thebes) that he is to remain unburied.
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