... King of Thebes, was only a minor figure in Greek myth until Sophocles, through his tragedy Oedipus Rex, made him the most famous of tragic heroes and the harrowing example for all time of man's inability to escape his fate. Oedipus ...
... king and cast wore masks as they played the story of the King of Thebes who, having unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, jabs out his eyes in shame. In a live TV performance (right) of the play on Omnibus (ABC-TV) last ...
... Thebes - ^Ttmr<. Although most Egyptians permitted wives to share their. Jfo - Death in Egypt, with its elaborate ... King Merneptah (opposite), inside a granite sarcophagus in a many-chambered tomb cut into the rock in the Valley ...
... Kings, at Thebes. From Hatshepsut's Temple we progressed to view nineteen-year old King Tutankhamun resting in his tomb, which was not discovered until 1922 because it is located under that of his predecessor, Pharaoh Ramses VI. Though ...
... king who outwitted the Sphinx but could not escape. ihaethon was the child of the sun-god Helius. But in spite of his divine parentage he was mortal, and his fate was that of all other human ... King of Thebes, was only a minor figure.
... Thebes EURIPIDES' The Bacchae, translated and directed by Michael Cacoyannis, is at the Circle in the Square on Broadway through November 23. Irene Papas and Philip Bosco play the king of Thebes's troubled mother and her father, from ...
... king and niece of the present ruler of Thebes, is determined to defy Creon's edict that her slain brother's body be left to rot unburied as a warning to other traitors. Any attempt to bury Polynices means death as the penalty. Knowing ...
... King Oedipus of Thebes. The Nazis were represented by the new king, Creon, who posed as a benevolent despot. Antigone's brother is slain in battle while trying to seize the government, so Creon orders that His body be left unburied ...
... Thebes the largest columned hall ever reared by man (left). Ramses II was not the first Egyptian ruler'with an obsession for self- aggrandizement and size. A full century earlier King Amen-hotep III planted two colossal statues of ...
THE KING'S HEAD is sculptured in gold foil and blue glass on the second of Tut-ankh-Amon's three mummy cases. The ... Thebes. There each day came galleys from Phoenicia, laden with gold and silver, armor from the forges of Tyre ...