Oedipus enters the village of Colonus and sits down on a stone. They are approached by a villager, who demands that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or Erinyes. Oedipus recognizes this as a sign, for when he received the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, Apollo also revealed to him that at the end of his life he would die at a place sacred to the Furies, and be a blessing for the land in which he is buried.
Book of illustrations : Ancient Tragedy
Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Richard G. Moulton
bookThe Tragedies of Sophocles
Sophocles
bookSpecimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles
Aeschylus, Sophocles
bookPlays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
Sophocles
bookYale Classics (Vol. 1)
Herodotus, Sappho, Homer, Hesiod, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Anacreon, Theognis of Megara, Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Lysias, Demosthenes, Apollonius, Callimachus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Epictetus, Gilbert Murray
bookThe Greatest Classics of Ancient Greece : Mythology, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Theater (Including Biographies of Authors and Critical Study of Each Work)
Homer, Hesiod, Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho, Anacreon, Theognis of Megara, Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Lysias, Demosthenes, Apollonius, Callimachus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Epictetus, Gilbert Murray
bookThe Trachiniae
Sophocles
bookOedipus King of Thebes
Sophocles
bookSpecimens of Greek Tragedy - Aeschylus and Sophocles
Aeschylus, Sophocles
bookThe Seven Plays in English Verse
Sophocles
bookPhiloktetes
Sophocles
bookAjax
Sophocles
book