Here, he met King Laius who was riding in his chariot. Oedipus Kills His Birth Fatherĭuring his journey, he came to Davlia, a place where three roads crossed over one another. To avoid this fate, he fled from Corinth and Traveled to Thebes. She told Oedipus that he was destined to marry his mother and kill his father. In response to this, he visited the same Oracle of Delphi who made the prophesy to his original parents. Years later, Oedipus was told by a drunk man that he was a bastard, meaning that his parentage wasn’t what he thought. Oedipus Finds Out He Was Born of Other Parentsįor much of Oedipus’ young life, he didn’t realize that his real parents weren’t the king and queen of Corinth. They raised the homeless child, who became their heir. Eventually, the homeless child came to Corinth where the king and queen didn’t have children of their own. Instead, a servant found him and gave the child to a shepherd. Jocasta eventually abandoned the son to the mountains, thinking that he would perish. Jocasta did give birth to a son, and to prevent the son from killing him, King Laius bound his feet and ankles together so he couldn’t move. The oracle prophesied that any son they had would eventually kill King Laius. After they had been together for some time, the king and queen consulted the Oracle of Delphi as to what could be done about that. Oedipus was the son of the King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Here is an overview of the story of King Oedipus: Son of the King and Queen of Thebes However, in each of these versions it was considered a tragedy. Because there were so many people who told the story, there are some variations depending on who told it. Sophocles merely dramatized a story that had already been part of the people’s existing mythology, but his version was one of the more popular. King Oedipus was the main character in Sophocles’ tragic plays, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. However, before Sophocles wrote about Oedipus, his myth actually already existed.
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