Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus

Two tragedies by the Greek dramatist Sophocles, based on episodes in the legend of Oedipus, king of Thebes. In Oedipus the King 429, Oedipus discovers that he has killed his father and married his own mother, and blinds himself in horror. In Oedipus at Colonus 401, the dethroned, blind king wanders as an outcast until led to a final resting place near Athens by his daughter Antigone.