Three rolls of thunder precede the death of this play's aged title character, who dies in a grotto and is interred in a location known only to Theseus and his male descendants.
Three rolls of thunder precede the death of this play's aged title character, who dies in a grotto and is interred in a location known only to Theseus and his male descendants. After he and his daughter arrive at an olive grove near Athens, the elders of the town try to persuade them to leave; instead, his other daughter Ismene and his son Polynices come and find him, but are unsuccessful in their attempts to persuade him to return to Thebes. FTP name this play, whose events precede those of Antigone, possibly the last play written by Sophocles.
Three rolls of thunder precede the death of this play's aged title character, who dies in a grotto and is interred in a location known only to Theseus and his male descendants.
Oedipus at Colonus