Oedipus at Colonus
F. Storr (1912)
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, written near the end of his long life and produced posthumously in 401 BC, dramatizes the last hours of the blind and exiled Oedipus, who arrives at the sacred grove of Colonus—the playwright's own birthplace—outside Athens. Received by King Theseus, the wandering outcast is transfigured at his mysterious death into a protecting spirit of the land. The middle-composed but last of the three Theban plays, it is a profound meditation on suffering, reconciliation, and the sanctity of a hard-won peace. The translation is F. Storr's.
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