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They had two sons , Eteocles and Polyneices , and two daughters , Ismene and Antigone . All this information is woven into the drama in its appropriate time , but as the play opens we know nothing of it . Oedipus has ruled Thebes well ...
They had two sons , Eteocles and Polyneices , and two daughters , Ismene and Antigone . All this information is woven into the drama in its appropriate time , but as the play opens we know nothing of it . Oedipus has ruled Thebes well ...
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sons , Eteocles and Polyneices , and asks to be led from the city . Though Sophocles wrote two more plays related to the tragic royal house of Thebes , Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus , they were not written in sequence but stand ...
sons , Eteocles and Polyneices , and asks to be led from the city . Though Sophocles wrote two more plays related to the tragic royal house of Thebes , Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus , they were not written in sequence but stand ...
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It was the bloody story of the struggle between two brothers for a throne , similar in many ways to the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices , the Theban brothers , sons of Oedipus , which we discussed in the Greek drama .
It was the bloody story of the struggle between two brothers for a throne , similar in many ways to the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices , the Theban brothers , sons of Oedipus , which we discussed in the Greek drama .
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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