Oedipus at Colonus

by Sophocles · c. 406 BCE, produced 401 BCE

Francis Storr's translation, 1912. 1 part, about 14,091 words, 64 minutes of reading. Source edition.

Oedipus at Colonus2 passages · 14,091 words

Passages the guide marks

I suffered those deeds more than I performed them.
Lines 266-267
Not to be born is best of all; and next best, by far, is to go back quickly where you came from.
Lines 1224-1227 · Read it in Oedipus at Colonus
Only to the gods does old age never come, nor death; everything else is confounded by all-powerful time.
Lines 607-609 · Read it in Oedipus at Colonus
Stranger, in this land of fine horses you have come to the fairest dwelling place on earth, to white Colonus, where the nightingale sings most often in the green glades.
Lines 668-673

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Francis Storr. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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