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Tragedy in Performance “A Little to the Left?”—What’s Oedipus stepped into? (Penguin trans. pp. 292–295)

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Page 1: Pity the Man? Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 1. Agenda Recap and Update OAC Intro, Background, etc. Tragedy in Performance “A Little to the Left?” (What’s

Pity the Man?

Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 1

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Agenda

• Recap and Update• OAC Intro, Background, etc.

• Tragedy in Performance• “A Little to the Left?” (What’s Oedipus stepped into?)

• Oedipal Reversals• OTK to OAC. . .

• Have Things Changed?• Character, Moral Climate

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Tragedy in Performance

“A Little to the Left?”—What’s Oedipus stepped into? (Penguin trans. pp. 292–295)

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Have Things Changed?

Character, Moral Climate

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5Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Have Things Changed?(And if so, How?)

Has the moral climate changed?

Is Oedipus still tragic?Was he ever tragic?

25-Oct 2011

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Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, cont’d

Eros, Tyrants, hubris, Knowledge

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Erōs and the Tyrant

Eros9-Mar-15

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8Sophocles Oedipus the King

Rite of Passage

• Separation• Transition• Incorporation

Arnold van Gennep, Les rites de passage (Paris, 1909)

9-Mar-15

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Oedipus’ Reverse Rite of Passage

Oedipus

sight-ignorance-incorporation

blindness-knowledge-separation

transition

“I count myself the son of Chance,”

(Oedipus, p. 224)

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10Sophocles Oedipus the King

Oedipus-pharmakos (“scapegoat”)

Oedipus, p. 244:“Quickly, for the love of god, hide me somewhere, kill me, hurl me into the sea where you can never look on me again.”

9-Mar-15

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Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

Introduction to Play

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12Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles, “Theban Plays”

• Playwright• ca. 496-ca. 406 BCE• first victory 468

• Plays – dates• Antigone, ca. 441• Oedipus the King, after

429• Oedipus at Colonus, ca.

406

• Plays – story order• Oedipus the King• Oedipus at Colonus• Antigone

Thebes

25-Oct 2011

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13Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Production, Historical Context

• War with Sparta: 431–404• Oligarchic revolution: 411/10• Colonus cavalry skirmish, 410 (407?)

Story OrderOedipus the King (after 429)Oedipus at Colonus (ca. 406)Antigone (ca. 442)

Compositional OrderAntigone (ca. 442)Oedipus the King (ca. 429?)Oedipus at Colonus (ca. 406)

25-Oct 2011

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Page 15: Pity the Man? Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 1. Agenda Recap and Update OAC Intro, Background, etc. Tragedy in Performance “A Little to the Left?” (What’s

prologue (pp. 284 ff.)Oed, Ant, Citizenidentity, positioning

parodos (291)amoibaion (chorus-character dialogue)Chorus, Oed, Antsupplication

1st episode A (298)leader, Oed, Ismene, Ant

amoibaion (314)Chorus, OedOed’s crimes (?)

1st episode B (318)Leader, Theseus, Oedsupplication, negotiation

1st stasimon (326)praise (Colonus, Athens)

2nd episode (328)Ant, Oed, Leader, Creon, Theseustussle over Oed

2nd stasimon (348)victory song

3rd episode (350)Leader, Oed, Ant, Thesleave-taking begins

3rd stasimon (358)the human condition

4th episode A (359)Ant, Oed, Polya father’s curse

amoebic kommos, dialogue (371)Chorus, Oed, Antportents

4th episode B (373)Thes, Oed

4th stasimon (377)prayers for Oed

exodos (378)spoken dialogue, lyric kommosmessenger, leader, Ant, Ismene, ThesOed’s demise, lament, consolation

Analysis

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Stage Set, “Colonus Hippius”

skene (stage building)

To UnderworldOlive grove

Equestrian statue

to Thebes Altar of Athena Hippia,Poseidon Hippios

Source: Wiles Tragedy in Athens

to Athens

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Some Plot Variants

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus Other…

Prior to action of play, Oedipus, after big reveal, seeks to be killed. When calms down, is allowed to live on at Thebes. Later, Thebes exiles him.

Oedipus remains in Thebes and is buried there (Soph. Antigone, Homer, Euripides)Oedipus goes into self-imposed exile at end of OTK.

Prior to action of play, Jocasta (Oedipus’ mother) has Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, Polynices by Oedipus. Hangs self at end of OTK (OAC prequel).

Jocasta kills self when incest revealed. Oedipus then remarries and has a new family (Antigone etc.)Jocasta lives on with Oedipus at Thebes (Euripides Phoenician Women).


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