A play named after this character opens with a crowd carrying olive branches wrapped in wood to ward off the plague.
A play named after this character opens with a crowd carrying olive branches wrapped in wood to ward off the plague. In another play, this character recognizes that a thunderstorm foretells his death and asks his daughter to take him outside to die on holy ground. One of this character's daughters is entombed and left to die for the crime of burying her brother Polyneices. This character travels the road to Colonus with his daughters Ismene and Antigone in the last of Sophocles's Theban plays. For 10 points, name this king of Thebes who blinds himself after he finds out that he killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta.
A play named after this character opens with a crowd carrying olive branches wrapped in wood to ward off the plague.
Oedipus [accept Oedipus Rex or Oedipus at Colonus]