Study Guide

Oedipus the King Characters

By Sophocles

You could wallpaper every home on Earth with the amount of scholarly papers written on Oedipus....

They're both practically perfect in every way.Creon is portrayed as a pretty stand-up guy. He...

Teiresias is kind of a cranky old fellow. We can see why. Even though he's blind, he can see...

Jocasta is the Queen of Thebes, but it's just not as glamorous as it sounds. By all accounts, it...

The Chorus is roughly like the peanut gallery (it’s even occasionally told to shut up)....