# Power and Kingship in Oedipus at Colonus

> Theme guide for Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles.

Theseus embodies just and compassionate rule, contrasting with Creon's tyrannical abduction of Antigone, and Oedipus's former kingship is examined through his fall and legacy.

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