CHARACTERS

JOCASTA, mother and wife of Oedipus

SERVANT, old tutor of Antigone

ANTIGONE, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta

CHORUS of captive women from Phoenicia

POLYNEICES, son of Oedipus and Jocasta, exiled by Eteocles

ETEOCLES, brother of Polyneices, ruling in Thebes

CREON, brother of Jocasta

TEIRESIAS, a blind prophet

MENOECEUS, son of Creon

MESSENGER

SECOND MESSENGER

OEDIPUS, son of Laius and Jocasta, former king of Thebes