Dramatis Personae

• Oedipus, banished King of Thebes

• Antigone, his daughter

• Ismene, his daughter

• Theseus, King of Athens

• Creon, brother of Jocasta, now reigning at Thebes

• Polyneices, elder son of Oedipus

• Stranger, a native of Colonus

• Messenger, an attendant of Theseus

• Chorus, citizens of Colonus

Scene: In front of the grove of the Eumenides.