During the fifth century B.C., the Golden Age of Athens, new forms of art and literature were being developed with extraordinary speed and energy. One of the most important of these forms was Tragedy, and the preeminence of Aeschylus. Sophocles, and Euri...

During the fifth century B.C., the Golden Age of Athens, new forms of art and literature were being developed with extraordinary speed and energy. One of the most important of these forms was Tragedy, and the preeminence of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euri...

The Greek tragedian Sophocles (496-406 BC) ranks foremost among Greek classical dramatists and has been called the poet of Greek humanism par excellence. The son of Sophilus, a well-to-do industrialist, Sophocles was born in Colonus near Athens and grew...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Oedipus At Colonus (401 B.C.) Background: Oedipus at Colonus was written when Sophocles was nearly ninety years old, produced five years after his death, and was awarded first prize. The play has often been called Sophocles' best, but its concern with...

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. xii + 243. $27.95. In Allegory and the Tragic Chorus, Roger Travis combines literary theory and Lacanian as well as object-relations psychoanalytic methodologies to study the chorus in Oedipus at Colonus. Travis's main argument...

This essay presents a case in which Sophocles' Oedipus of "Oedipus at Colonus" is innocent due to the distortion of the story.