The Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at
Colonus, and Antigone - together these tell the tragic story of
Oedipus the king of Thebes, and his daughter Antigone. Oedipus the
King (in Latin Oedipus Rex) sees the youthful Oedipus consults the
Oracle at Delphi, wherein it predicts that he will ""Mate with
[his] own mother, and shed/With [his] own hands the blood of [his]
own sire."" Oedipus at Colonus has the elderly Oedipus, by now
ostracised and distrusted by society at large for his earlier,
unintended wrongdoing. Blind after gouging out his own eyes in
reaction to the revelations of the first play, it is his
daughter/sister Antigone who escorts him to King Theseus. The final
play in the Trilogy is Antigone - this title sees Oedipus offspring
navigate the drama of a Civil War in Thebes. All three compositions
are superb examples of Greek drama; owing to their revelatory
contents and narrative twists, Sophocles' Theban plays remain
popular to this day.
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