Exile of Oedipus
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Oedipus's banishment · Oedipus's departure into exile · banish himself · banished · beggar · cast me out · driven from the land · exile · lead me from the land · outcast
in the texts
Phoenissae
Creon's banishment of Oedipus from Thebes, followed by Oedipus's departure with Antigone toward his fated death at Colonus.
Oedipus:
Oedipus:
Oedipus:
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus' expulsion from Thebes and long wandering, which frames his arrival, supplication, and hostility to Theban claims.
Oedipus:
Who will entertain the wandering Oedipus today with scanty gifts?
No, they saw me sent forth homeless, and heard the crier proclaim my sentence of exile.
Oedipus Tyrannus
The removal Oedipus demands for himself as the polluted parricide and incestuous man who must not remain in Thebes.
Creon:
Creon:
Oedipus: