Jason Furman's Reviews > The Phoenician Women

A very dramatic and action packed account of the siege of Thebes--featuring Jocasta, Creon, Antigone, Polynices and Eteocles. In many ways more plot driven that most Greek dramas it includes a lengthy prologue that tells the story of Oedipus (at some variance with the Sophocles version) and then gets to the attempt to prevent a war between his two sons, the failure of that attempt, and the beginning of the burial drama that was fully described in Antigone. Plus it also had the sacrifice of Creon's son which seemed bizarrely disconnected from everything else. Highly recommended as part of the Theban saga, filling in some links and interesting reinterpretations, but not anywhere nearly as profound as Oedipus Rex or Antigone.

I should say I read this as part of a collection of Three Other Theban Plays: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes; Euripides' Suppliants; Euripides' Phoenician Women translated by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig. The introduction to this collection was excellent, both about Greek drama in general, the Theban stories, and these plays specifically.