In this play, Theseus rescues Ismene (iz-MEE-nee) from Creon's men and restores her to her blind suppliant father.
In this play, a man is instructed to crown bowls with freshly shorn wool before pouring out three drink-o ferings from a holy spring and laying olive sprays on the wet ground. A chorus in this play declares, "Not to be born is best, but when a man has seen the light, the next best thing is to go back where he came from as fast as he can." This play provided the basis for T. S. Eliot's last play, The Elder Statesman. In this play, a man recognizes that his death is near a ter three successive peals of thunder and leads the way to his tomb. This play's protagonist trespasses on ground sacred to the Eumenides and curses his two sons who exiled him from his city when they both seek his aid in their civil war. In this play, Theseus rescues Ismene (iz-MEE-nee) from Creon's men and restores her to her blind suppliant father. For 10 points, name this play that makes up Sophocles's "Theban trilogy" along with Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
In this play, a man is instructed to crown bowls with freshly shorn wool before pouring out three drink-o ferings from a holy spring and laying olive sprays on the wet ground.
Oedipus at Colonus [or Oedipus Coloneus; or Oidipous epi Colono]