Oedipus at Colonus Resources

The play, online.

Read up on Sophocles’ playwriting pals.

Leave it to the BBC to stage the classic tragedy for a television audience.

A 20^th-century adaptation of the play.

Sophocles’ obsession with fate and free will continues to bug philosophers and scientists today.

Oedipus’ death site can help us think through modern-day memorials.

A clip from the Gospel at Colonus.

Watch a video of Sophocles’ play.

The audio version of the play.

An 18^th-century rendition of Oedipus’ fate.

Here’s another 18^th-century painting of Oedipus fighting Creon.

Oedipus curses his son in this drawing.