This author wrote a work in which a man is stranded on Lemnos after a foot wound received from a snake bite festers and smells really bad. In addition to that play about the man who killed Paris, Philoctetes, this man wrote a play in which Creon's decree that Polyneices' body may not be (*) buried causes the death of his son Haemon and the title character. Another of his plays ends with the main character stabbing his eyes out and his wife and mo
This author wrote a work in which a man is stranded on Lemnos after a foot wound received from a snake bite festers and smells really bad. In addition to that play about the man who killed Paris, Philoctetes, this man wrote a play in which Creon's decree that Polyneices' body may not be (*) buried causes the death of his son Haemon and the title character. Another of his plays ends with the main character stabbing his eyes out and his wife and mother Jocasta hanging herself. The creator of the Theban Plays, for ten points, name this ancient Greek tragedian, author of Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
This author wrote a work in which a man is stranded on Lemnos after a foot wound received from a snake bite festers and smells really bad.