As Sophocles' Oedipus the King begins, the people of Thebes are begging the king for help, begging him to discover the cause of the plague. Oedipus stands before them and swears to find the root of ...

Thebes was one of about 1,000 poleis (city-states) spread all over the mainland of classical Greece, the islands of the Aegean and Ionian seas, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, north Africa, southern ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...

ACCORDING to a Freudian superstition now widely current, King Oedipus of Thebes was pursued by an unconscious desire to kill his father and violate his mother, and the Greeks told this myth with the ...

What a pleasure to see the work of one of our Irish Nobel laureates given an invigorating full production on a New York stage. Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ Antigone is called The Burial at ...

Oedipus approches members of the Chorus. If anyone has information on who may have murdered King Laius, Oedipus asks that they come forth with now. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the ...