... finest lyrics in Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus has been wandering like a beggar with his daughter, Antigone, and has reached Colonus, a suburb of Athens. They reach a grove, which is a shrine of Eumenides, that admission is forbidden. A man approaches them and Oedipus tells the man to inform the king of Athens, Theseus, of his arrival. A group of elders enter the scene and Oedipus ... ...

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