The Oedipus Trilogy

 Table of Contents

 Oedipus the King

 Argument

 Dramatis Personae

 1. Dr. Kennedy and others render Since to men of experience I see that also comparisons of their counsels are in most lively use.

 Oedipus at Colonus

 Argument

 Dramatis Personae

 Scene: In front of the grove of the Eumenides. Enter the blind Oedipus led by his daughter, Antigone

 1. The Greek text for the passages marked here and later in the text have been lost.

 Antigone

 Argument

 Dramatis Personae

 Antigone and Ismene

1. The Greek text for the passages marked here and later in the text have been lost.

2. To avoid the blessing, still a secret, he resorts to a commonplace; literally, "For what generous man is not (in befriending others) a friend to himself?"

3. 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.

4. The Thebans sprung from the Dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus.