1: THE WELCOME AND QUOTATIONS
(Band: Organ Prelude)
Music Score
0. Gospel at Colonus Complete Score.pdfAudio Sample
Featured Speaker
THESEUS
Reference
FR 64: Oedipus (last lines of Scene IV)
FR 69: Messenger (Exodos)
FR 77: Creon to Oedipus
FR 79-80: Oedipus (Exodus, speaking on stage to Creon)
DISCOVER
"BOOK OF OEDIPUS"
The "Book" in Christianity
Oedipus Rex Study Guide
THESEUS' welcome speech draws reference from the sacred book - not the sacred books of the Bible, but an earlier play of the Theban Cycle: Oedipus Rex.
To learn more about the story of Theban king(s) and Queen Jocasta, go to Sophocles' Trilogy and Family Tree!
"EXODUS:" Oedipus & Israelites
Exodus in Greek Tragedy
The last scene of a Greek tragedy, the departure/exit of the actors and the chorus.
See more: an Overview of Greek Tragedy Structure
Exodus in Christianity
The second book of the Hebrew Bible, which recounts the departure of the Israelites from slavery in Biblical Egypt, their journey across the Red Sea and through the wilderness led by Moses, the giving of the Ten Commandments, and the “Promised Land” Canaan.
Just as Canaan to the Israelites, Colonus is the promised resting place to Oedipus. Both stories are regarded as myths with historical basis.
The Israelites and Oedipus also lived around the same time: scholars date Israelites’ journey variously between 1580 and 1200 BC, and the Bronze Age Greece of Oedipus (1000 years before Sophocles) was also roughly 1500 - 1200 BC.
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS as staged in 401 BC. The Book of Exodus also became a written, unchangeable sacred texts around 400 BC.