The Oedipus

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The Oedipus Trilogy

• By
• Gadi Ickowicz
• Chiara Luxardo
• Ipek Tugcu

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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

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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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Oedipus Trilogy

• By Kat, Fred, Elisa

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• 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. She is 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.

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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.

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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.