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Theseus at Colonus
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Abstract
Theseus plays a major role in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Co/onus, and to some extent this play could almost be seen as a response to Euripides’ Suppliant Women. Sophocles is, of course, a very different person from Euripides, and a suppliant play written at the end of the Peloponnesian War will naturally be very different from one written at its beginning. In Sophocles’ play there is no conflict between Theseus the adventurer and Theseus the re former, between Theseus the king and Theseus the democrat.
Title: Theseus at Colonus
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Abstract
Theseus plays a major role in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Co/onus, and to some extent this play could almost be seen as a response to Euripides’ Suppliant Women.
Sophocles is, of course, a very different person from Euripides, and a suppliant play written at the end of the Peloponnesian War will naturally be very different from one written at its beginning.
In Sophocles’ play there is no conflict between Theseus the adventurer and Theseus the re former, between Theseus the king and Theseus the democrat.
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