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The Oedipus’ Trilogy

By: Gadi Ickowicz Chiara Luxardo Ipek Tugcu. The Oedipus’ Trilogy. Antigone. Antigone was the first tragedy written in this trilogy by Sophocles It is, ironically, the last part of Oedipus’ story It takes place after Oedipus’ death

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The Oedipus’ Trilogy

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  1. By: Gadi Ickowicz Chiara Luxardo Ipek Tugcu The Oedipus’ Trilogy

  2. Antigone • Antigone was the first tragedy written in this trilogy by Sophocles • It is, ironically, the last part of Oedipus’ story • It takes place after Oedipus’ death • The play illustrates the conflict between Antigone and Creon, the heir to the throne of Thebes after Oedipus’ exile

  3. Oedipus at Colonus • This is the middle part of Oedipus’ story, but it is the last one to be written by Sophocles • This play takes place after “Oedipus the King” • It picks up the story after Jocasta is dead and Oedipus is exiled from Thebes • “Colonus” outlines the power struggle for the vacancy left by Oedipus’ exile

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  5. Antigone was probably the first of the three Theban plays that Sophocles wrote, although the events dramatized in it happen last. • In this play, Eteocles and Polyneices are the two sons of Oedipus, that after his death, left his reign to them. • Eteocles is considered by Creon the one who defends Thebes, instead Polyneices is the one who attacks it. • After a quarrel between the brothers, where they both die, Creon says Polyneices has to lie unburied, declaring him to be a traitor. • Antigone for the love of his brother, buries him in secret, but Creon discovers her and she commits suicide. • Antigone is one of the first heroines in literature. Sheis a woman who fights against male power, showing greater bravery than any of the men who went against her. • This is not only a feminist play but a radical one as well.

  6. OEDIPUS THE KING • The story of Oedipus was well known to Sophocles' audience. Oedipus arrives at Thebes as a stranger and finds the town under the curse of the Sphinx, who will not free the city unless her riddle is answered. Oedipus solves the riddle and, since the king has recently been murdered, becomes the king and marries the queen. In time, he comes to learn that he is actually a Theban, the king's son, cast out of Thebes as a baby. He has killed his father and married his mother. Horrified, he blinds himself and leaves Thebes forever.

  7. OEDIPUS AT COLONUS • Beginning with the arrival of Oedipus in Colonus after years of wandering, Oedipus at Colonus ends with Antigone setting off toward her own fate in Thebes. Oedipus at Colonus is not defined as a tragedy; it hardly has a plot in the normal sense of the word. Thought to have been written toward the end of Sophocles' life and at the conclusion of the Golden Age of Athens. This is a religious play, and it does not attempt the dramatic fireworks of the others.

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