Week Five

Part Two: Oedipus at Colonus, The Comedy?

October 22, 7 PM -8:30 pm

Theseus’ freedom from anger and his founding of Athens as a shining city known for its piety, upholding Justice and Law. The decline of Thebes into blood feuds and naked tyranny. The political prudence of giving sanctuary to Oedipus as a religious weapon or talisman in war.

Reading: Lines 668 – 1210

(The translation we are using is Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus, in The Theban Plays, translated by Peter J. Ahrensdorf and Thomas L. Pangle. Agora Editions, Cornell Univ Press: 2014.)