Polynices is heading back to Thebes to fight for the crown. Oedipus refuses to come along and curses Polynices to death at his brother's hand. Oedipus, blinded by his own hands, has been walking ...

Read the monologue for the role of Polynices from the script for Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles. Polynices says: Ah me, my sisters, shall I first lament My own afflictions, or my aged sire's, <br ...