Week Six

Part Two: Oedipus at Colonus, The Comedy?

October 29, 7 PM -8:30 pm

Acceptance of Death, or Transcendence? Oedipus’ rivalry with and angry vengeance against his own son as a patricide (1361). The unseen or miraculous death of Oedipus. The transformation of his hidden tomb by Theseus into a holy shrine of Athens.

Reading: Lines 1211 – 1779

(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.)