RT Article
T1 Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
JF The Oedipus casebook
SP 1
OP 126
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1913372863
AB The stage building represents the house of Oedipus, tyrant of Thebes. Before its central door stands an altar. Other altars are nearby. One gangway, traditionally the one to the spectators’ left, leads to the country. The other leads to the city of Thebes. Oedipus comes out of his house to find an old man and youth approaching him quickly. He speaks to them as they are arriving and arranging about his altars (16) their suppliant branches of olive festooned with woolen fillets and taking their seats on the steps of his altars (31). By line 10, they have settled themselves....
SN 9781628953787
DO 10.14321/j.ctvw1d58n.5