Oedipus at Colonus is
one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. The play
describes the end of Oedipus's tragic life. Legends differ as to the site of
Oedipus's death; Sophocles set the place at Colonus, a village near Athens and
also Sophocles's 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.