It depicts the moment when the ill-fated Oedipus kills his own father, Laius. Laius was the Prince of Thebes. In a play by Euripedes, 'Chrysippus', it is related how, after Amphion and Zethos usurped ...

Creon has them brought out to say good bye to their father. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to ...

Thebes is under the leadership of a parliament of women fronted ... He seems positively benign when compared with vain warlord "Prince" Tydeus (Chuk Iwuji) and his vengeful sidekick Creon's widow and ...