On his journey Oedipus quarelled with and killed an elderly man. Arriving at Thebes, Oedipus learned that the king had recently been killed and that the city was in the thrall of the Sphinx. He ...

Oedipus then proceeded to Thebes, where the Sphinx (which means ‘the Strangler’) awaited him, at the city gate. Half-woman, half-lion, she had been devouring any traveller who could not give the ...

Jocasta has killed herself and Oedipus has blinded himself. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to ...

None of this is apparent as the play opens in Thebes, then a powerful city-state northwest of Athens. In front of the royal palace, citizens and priests have gathered to implore King Oedipus to ...

In Oedipus Tyrannus, these taboos manipulate the characters in strange ways into a plot that temporarily turns Thebes into the seat of a new primal horde. At Oedipus’ birth his parents, terrified by ...

In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus, the king of Thebes ... the sons of the original invaders, the Seven Against Thebes. They took over the city and burned it. The Thebans had to flee and Tiresias was ...

In the ancient city of Thebes, Oedipus has been crowned king, but the Oracle prophesises that misfortune is coming his way – can he defy his future and outrun his fate? A cathartic exploration of ...

The theater season at Harvard could scarcely have had a more satisfactory beginning than with the Eliot Drama Group presentation of the Yeats' adaptation of Oedipus Rex and Sheridan's The Critic.

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...