Oedipus and Antigone

Title

Oedipus and Antigone

Artist

Miss Katherine Bruce

Lent By

the Artist

Catalog Number

75

Catalog Page

12

Catalog Description

Oedipus was Kind of Thebes and did a great wrong un- wittingly. And when he learned the truth, with his own hands he tore out his eyes, for that "it was not fit that the eyes which had seen such things should ever look upon the sun again." And not long after Oedipus was driven forth in wretchedness and beggary, and his daughter Antigone led him by the hand, and sought to cheer him in his agony. She ' Leads the old man through many a wild wood path, ' Hungry and footsore, threading on her way ; ' And many a storm, and many a scorching sun ' Bravely she bears, and little recks of home, ' So that her father finds his daily bread.' And the story goes on to tell of the healing virtue of love ; for in the end the furies of remorse are turned into the kindly Goddesses of forgiveness, and Oedipus is received up into heaven.