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The Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

By Sophocles (translated by Francis Storr)

Cover of The Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Cover: Oedipus and Antigone, or The Plague of Thebes (1842), oil on canvas by Charles Jalabert (1819-1901) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1901)

Oedipus the King, who has sworn to find the murderer of the previous king of Thebes, discovers that he is the man himself; Oedipus at Colonus follows the blind exile to his death in Athens, and Antigone defies Creon to bury her brother. Each play is one chapter.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Oedipus the King
  2. 2: Oedipus at Colonus
  3. 3: Antigone