Page:Tragedies of Sophocles (Jebb 1917).djvu/71

 

OEDIPUS AT COLONUS.

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA.

Oedipus.
Antigone	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	his daughters.⁠
Ismene
A Man of Colonus.
Theseus, King of Athens.
Creon, of Thebes.
Polyneices, the elder son of Oedipus.
A Messenger.
Chorus of Elders of Colonus.

---

Scene: At Colonus, about a mile and a quarter N.W. of Athens, in front of a grove sacred to the Erinyes or Furies,—there worshipped under the propitiatory name of the Eumenides, or Kindly Powers.

---