Both sons have heard from an oracle that the outcome of the conflict will depend on where their father is buried. She brings the news that Eteocles has seized the throne of Thebes from his elder brother, Polynices, while Polynices is gathering support from the Argives to attack the city. Ismene arrives on horseback, rejoicing to see her father and sister. Furthermore, he asks to see their king, Theseus, saying, "I come as someone sacred, someone filled with piety and power, bearing a great gift for all your people." : 300 The chorus is amazed and decides to reserve their judgment of Oedipus until Theseus, king of Athens, arrives. Oedipus answers by explaining that he is not morally responsible for his crimes, since he killed his father in self-defense. Although they promised not to harm Oedipus, they wish to expel him from their city, fearing that he will curse it. They then question him about his identity and are horrified to learn that he is the son of Laius. The chorus, consisting of old men from the village, enters and persuades Oedipus to leave the holy ground. 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. They are approached by a villager, who demands that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or the Erinyes. Led by Antigone, Oedipus enters the village of Colonus and sits down on a stone. Oedipus at Colonus, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, 1788, Dallas Museum of Art Legends differ as to the site of Oedipus's death Sophocles set the place at Colonus, a village near Athens and also Sophocles's own birthplace, where the blinded Oedipus has come with his daughters Antigone and Ismene as suppliants of the Erinyes and of Theseus, the king of Athens. The play describes the end of Oedipus's tragic life. In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus Rex and before Antigone however, it was the last of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be written.
It was written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. Oedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus Coloneus Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnōi) is the last of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. Oedipus at Colonus by Fulchran-Jean Harriet
0 kommentar(er)
