The Phoenician Women
Oedipus is still alive, shut up in the palace, and Jocasta is still living; she comes out to broker a truce between her sons as the Argive army of Polynices closes on the seven gates and Eteocles refuses to give up the throne on the agreed terms. Creon is then told that the city can be saved only by the death of his own son. Crowded with characters and spectacle, it was among the most popular plays of antiquity and takes deliberate liberties with the Theban story as Aeschylus and Sophocles had left it.
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- shares sources with ↑ Oedipus Rex
- shares sources with ↑ Antigone
- ↓ The Thebaid
- ↓ Phoenissae
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