Oedipus to Attica, so what?

March 14, 2009 9:23 PM

Attica and Oedipus Rex. Their story. Help me.

I've been tasked to describe the role the city of Attica plays in the greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. I'm supposed to speak for about 5 minutes. How do I fill this time?

I know that Oedipus was either exiled by his sons or asked to be exiled to Attica.

I know its geographical relation to Thebes.

Other than this somewhat peripheral role, what more can be said of Attica?

posted by Northwest to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Colonus is in Attica. Sophocles wrote a play called "Oedipus at Colonus." The contents of that play should give you at least five minutes.

Is this homework?
posted by mr_roboto at 9:51 PM on March 14, 2009

Best answer: Wikipedia has a summary of that play.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:36 PM on March 14, 2009

Attica is not a city. It is a region whose main city is Athens. Boeotia has a similar relation to Thebes.

How is this not HomeworkFilter?
posted by languagehat at 9:12 AM on March 15, 2009

Response by poster: This was an assignment my daughter had from school, we had had no success in finding additional info. Thanks for your help all we needed was a point in the right direction.
posted by Northwest at 1:10 PM on March 16, 2009