The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
Forthcoming The translation of this work is in preparation and will be published in the library.
Introduction
These three plays follow the fate of the royal house of Thebes. In Oedipus the King the king, seeking the murderer of his predecessor to end a plague, discovers step by step that the murderer is himself and that the queen he married is his own mother: the most perfect tragic plot ever written. In Antigone Oedipus' daughter defies King Creon's decree and buries her brother, declared a traitor, choosing death rather than break the unwritten laws of the gods. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles' last play, shows the old blind Oedipus finding his final resting place outside Athens.