Timeline and Summary

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Timeline and Summary

  • Oedipus shows up in Athens with Antigone and realizes it’s his prophesied final resting place.
  • He asks the King of Athens to let him hang out, and he agrees.
  • When Creon kidnaps his daughters, Oedipus asks Theseus for help and gets them back.
  • Oedipus rejects his son, Polyneices’ attempt to take back Thebes together.
  • The old man leads his entourage out into the wilderness, where the earth swallows him up and his tomb becomes an offering to Athens.