The Theban Plays Author:Sophocles These three plays (Antigone/King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus) by Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) though they are all based on the legend of the royal house of Thebes, were written at different periods and dramatize different themes. Antigone is the tragedy of a woman ruled by conscience, an over-confedent king, and a young man tormented by conflicting ... more »loyalties. King Oedipus is a vast and living portrait of man, iwthout parallel in the Greek theatre, and Oedipus at Colonus completes the story with the legend of the passing of the aged hero.« less