In this paper we analyze the first stasimon of the tragedy Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles based on the verses 16 to 18 of the prologue. The comparison between both passages may be important in the extent that the ἄλσος described in the prologue is introduced like a place, significant from a dramatic point of view, which is developed poetically in the first stasimon. Both descriptions have several aspects in common that may help us to understand better the nature of this sacred forest and the dramatic purpose of the verses 16-18 of the prologue, which tend to schedule the description of the first stasimon.... [Leer más...]