Oedipus begs Teiresias to help reveal who the killer is and help lift the plague. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx ...

Thus: Oedipus’s land is cursed with plague because of his (unknown at the outset) crime in killing his father and bedding his mother; later, blind and dying, he comes to Colonus; Philoctetes’s ...

Motlow State’s Theatre department will present “Oedipus” in April on the Moore County Campus. This version of the play was ...

The juxtaposition of Oedipus with a modern aeroplane is both captivating and unsettling. Mohamed Salmawy’s Oedipus occupies a ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

Motlow State’s Theatre department will present “Oedipus” in April on the Moore County Campus. This version of the play was adapted from Sophocles’s original story by playwright Ellen McLaughlin and ...

Teiresias tells Oedipus that Oedipus is the murderer he seeks. That Oedipus killed King Laius and the resulting plague is due to his trangressions. Oedipus does not believe Teiresias and feels ...