Oedipus at Colonus.
Blind and exiled from Thebes, Oedipus, accompanied by his daughter Antigone and pursued by the Furies (Eumenides), wandered to Colonus, near Athens. He settled there, protected by the Athenian king Theseus, who promised that Oedipus would be buried on Attic soil. Oedipus was reunited with his other daughter, Isemene, who told him of the struggle for control of Thebes between his two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices. An oracle had promised triumph to whichever side had the favor of Oedipus, but he angrily dismissed both his sons' claims. Finally at peace, Oedipus died quietly, with only Theseus as witness; his burial place remained unknown to anyone else, including his own children.

See also Seven Against Thebes.