The second play sequentially of Sophocles' Theban tetralogy but written last and produced at the Dionysia posthumously. The play picks up years after the events of Oedipus Rex, with the now blind and beggarly Oedipus and his daughter Antigone arriving at Colonus. They stop to rest in a sacred grove and are confronted by citizens concerned for the sanctity of the place and fearful of Oedipus' curse. Oedipus knows this as a sign of his imminent death and asks to see Theseus, the king of Athens.