As he is near Athens, he seeks out Theseus, King of Athens, and asks him if he may be allowed to stay, die and be buried at Colonus. But Creon wants Oedipus to return to Thebes. All of Oedipus ...

Set in the context of a black Pentecostal service, THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS is an exuberant re-telling of Sophocles' classic Oedipus at Colonus. more ...

His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who wrote The Trojan Trilogy, of which only The Trojan Women survives ...