Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles's final Theban play follows the blind, exiled Oedipus in his last days as he arrives with his daughters at the sacred grove of Colonus outside Athens. Under the protection of King Theseus, Oedipus confronts his sons and Creon, who seek to use him for Thebes's political ends, and comes to a mysterious end that transforms him into a guardian spirit for the city that sheltered him. Written and staged after Sophocles's death, it completes the Theban trilogy's meditation on fate, exile, and reconciliation.