The tragle story of King Oedipus is one of the great dramas that Western culture has inherited from Ancient Greece. It has penetrated the literature, legend and language of all ages.

Towering above the gallery of characters that Sophocles created are two who stand as universal symbols of human nature in its frailty and strength: Oedipus the king who unknowubgly killed his father and married his mother and married his mother and who atoned for these crimes by a voluntary act of self-punishment… and Antigone, his daughter who placed right and dignity above her life.