FTP--name this play, completed by its  author while in his 90s, Sophocles' last though chronologically the  middle play of his Theban trilogy.
The title character unknowingly violates the ground sacred to  the Eumenides, and though initially welcomed by the local  townspeople after he agrees to expiate for his unwitting act, the  townspeople immediately demand that he and his daughter leave after  they discover his true identity. Eventually, though, the king  rescues his daughter from his cruel brother-in-law, and agrees to  protect him until he dies. FTP--name this play, completed by its  author while in his 90s, Sophocles' last though chronologically the  middle play of his Theban trilogy.
The title character unknowingly violates the ground sacred to  the Eumenides, and though initially welcomed by the local  townspeople after he agrees to expiate for his unwitting act, the  townspeople immediately demand that he and his daughter leave after  they discover his true identity.
Oedipus at Colonus