Oedipus at Colonus

thumb|right|335 pxOedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus Coloneus) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC.
In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus the King and before Antigone; however, it was the last of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be written. The play describes the end of Oedipus' tragic life. Legends differ as to the site of Oedipus' death; Sophocles set the place at Colonus, a village near Athens and also Sophocles' own birthplace, where the blinded Oedipus has come with his daughters Antigone and Ismene as suppliants of the Erinyes and of Theseus, the king of Athens.
== Tossup Questions ==
# Roger Travis used psychoanalytic theory in his book entitled Allegory and the tragic chorus in [this play]. In Scene 3, the protagonist comments that "the immortal Gods alone have neither age nor death, and all other things almighty Time disquiets," and later, he interprets a thunderstorm as a sign of his impending death. A character referred to only as "a stranger" remarks that the title location is known as "this earth's Doorsill of Brass," after he tells the protagonist that it is sacred to the Furies and demands that he leave along with his daughter, Antigone. For 10 points, name this play by Sophocles which forms a trilogy with Oedipus Rex and Antigone.