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receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

end Oedipus discovers all the truths and offers himself up to be banished, as was the plan in relationship to whoever killed the k...

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

a man. She is fighting to ensure that he has a proper burial and she has no thoughts for herself. Ismene simply wants to be a good...

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

"Oedipus the King" (The Classics Pages: Antigone). Before Oedipus came onto the scene it seems that Creon may well have had a ch...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

pursue justice with or without her sisters assistance. With an impressive strength that demonstrates her unwavering commitment to...

inseminated, and so forth. Technology has had a way of impinging on morality, and today, there is a sense that part of the process...

resides in Thebes. Oedipus demands that someone come forward with information. When no one comes, Oedipus puts a curse on whoever ...