Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus the King and before Antigone. The play describes the end of Oedipus' tragic life. Legends differ as to the site of Oedipus' death; Sophocles set the place at Colonus, a village near Athens and also Sophocles' own birthplace, where the blinded Oedipus has come with his daughters Antigone and Ismene as suppliants of the Eumenides and of Theseus, the king of Athens.

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	Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone	Paperback	736863	$6.99	$5.00	2011
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	Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	3473241	$3.80		2012
	Oedipus Plays (Signet)	Mass Market Paperback	1195317	$4.83	$0.01	1958
	The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone	Paperback	1228342	$8.87	$0.99	2010
	The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions)	Kindle Edition	105565	$1.99		2012
	The Theban Plays (Classics)	Kindle Edition	57221	$8.11		1973
	The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library (Cloth))	Hardcover	628674	$9.91	$6.43	1994
	Oedipus at Colonus (Plays for Performance Series)	Hardcover	4645235	$11.48	$2.34	2002
	Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)	Kindle Edition	28681	$0.99		2012
	The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone	Paperback	928379	$8.99		2013
	The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)	Paperback	609913	$10.49	$7.15	2009
	The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone	Paperback	14881676		$3.00
	Theban Plays Of Sophocles: The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus The King, Oedipus At Colonus and Antigone	Paperback	7164828	$8.63	$9.20	2013
	Oedipus at Colonus (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)	Kindle Edition	2121345			2015
	The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone	Paperback	957610	$4.99		2017
	The Oedipus Cycle: A New Translation by Sophocles (2012-03-20)	Paperback	6340309	$16.57	$11.81
	Three Theban Plays (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)	Paperback	244890	$5.02	$3.99	2008
	The Three Theban Plays	Hardcover	1398187		$15.99	1982
	Greek Tragedies III: Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis (The Complete Greek Tragedies Book 3)	Kindle Edition	123154	$2.99		2013
	Oedipus at Colonus	Audible Audio Edition	69746	$8.74		2016
	The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone	Paperback	487055	$9.99		2022
	Oedipus Trilogy	Kindle Edition	342386			2015
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	The Three Theban Plays: Antigone/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus?? [3 THEBAN PLAYS] [Paperback]	Paperback	834745	$9.32	$3.12	1999
	Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	3530315	$7.60	$28.33	2009
	The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone	Paperback	843717	$5.99	$57.97	2014
	The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Mentor Series)	Mass Market Paperback	3638294	$6.30	$0.01	1958
	Oedipus at Colonus	Kindle Edition	789293	$1.28		2009
	Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	4341238	$6.90		2011
	Oedipus at colonus	Paperback	1427637	$4.59		2017
	The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	725805	$8.93		2018
	Oedipus Trilogy (Bibliobazaar Reproduction)	Hardcover	6045884	$26.70	$22.99	2008
	Oedipus At Colonus	Paperback	454327	$5.99		2016
	The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone	Mass Market Paperback	3497542	$38.86	$0.01	1958
	Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	1108435	$5.99		2018
	The Oedipus Trilogy	Paperback	1161268	$5.50		2016
	The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus	Kindle Edition	589055			2017
	Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone	Paperback	578424	$6.39	$3.17	2002
	Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone	Paperback	965469	$4.95	$0.10	1955
	Oedipus at Colonus (Dover Thrift Editions)	Paperback	108793	$0.01	$0.25	1999
	The Three Theban Plays: Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	173021	$2.99	$3.77	2018
	Sophocles Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus	Audible Audiobook	173901	$12.99		2019
	The Oedipus Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus SparkNotes Literature Guide (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)	Kindle Edition	819847			2014
	The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Mentor Series)	Mass Market Paperback	6853491	$9.98	$0.87	1958
	The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone	Paperback	664236	$9.94	$1.17	1996
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	Oedipus at Colonus (Dover Thrift Editions)	Kindle Edition	215917	$0.99		2012
	The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone	Hardcover	820368	$24.80	$2.00	2002
	The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles	Hardcover	10823393		$0.76
	The Theban Plays: "Oedipus the Tyrant"; "Oedipus at Colonus"; "Antigone" (Agora Editions)	Paperback	991502	$17.95	$5.10	2014
	Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)	Paperback	1475878	$11.00	$3.74	2004
	The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)	Kindle Edition	349180			2010
	The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity)	Hardcover	4817410	$30.82	$3.59	2009
	The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone	Kindle Edition	745551			2013
	Oedipus at Colonus (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)	Paperback	7394453	$4.95	$8.53	2015
	The Oedipus Trilogy the Oedipus Trilogy	Hardcover	5991398	$27.99	$24.00	2010
	The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	89378	$8.73	$3.09	2012
	The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone	Paperback	210651	$11.99	$2.07	2020
	The Three Theban Plays 1st (first) edition Text Only	Paperback	1157438	$8.17	$2.71
	Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus	Paperback	572893	$16.98	$1.99	1956
	The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	338457	$9.32	$1.00	1950
	The Oedipus Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonus (SparksNotes)	Paperback	829879	$2.49	$0.10	2002
	Oedipus Plays: Oedipus Tyrannos; Oedipus at Kolonos; Antigone	Paperback	2950843	$9.35	$1.80	1998
	The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)	Paperback	51598	$4.19	$1.30	2006
	The Oedipus Plays: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus SparkNotes Literature Guide (Volume 50) (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)	Paperback	212065	$3.99	$1.18	2014
	Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone	Paperback	124605	$4.99	$1.08	2002