Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

⏱ 8 minDrama

Blind and driven from every city, the old king of Thebes comes to a sacred grove outside Athens to meet a strange, blessed death — and the gods themselves come down to gather him. Sophocles' last play, where the most polluted of men becomes a hidden blessing for the land that shelters him.

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