Sophocles The Oedipus Cycle Author:English Versions by Dudley Fitts & Robert Fitzgerald The myth of Oedipus, which reverbates to our own day, provided Sophocles with material for three great tragedies - Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, which together recount the downfall of Oedipus, King of Thebes, his death in exile, and the action carried out after his death by his daughter Antigone...