When Oedipus was born the oracle prophesized that he would kill his father and wed his mother so in order to save themselves his parents had him killed, or so they thought. He was chained to a mountainside by his ankles and left to die an agonizing death, but a wandering Shepard found him and saved him. He was brought to King of Corinth, who since he could not father any children of his own, raised him as if he were his. Oedipus knew nothing of hi

On the road Oedipus met a man traveling in a carriage, and when told to step aside so they could pass, Oedipus struck out in anger and killed the King of Thebes, who we know to be his biological father and all of his men except one. Oedipus main character flaw throughout the play is that he is quick to anger. He then continued on to Thebes where the sphinx was laying waste to the city and killing any man who could not answer it's riddle. No one could solve the sphinx's accursed riddle, not even the wise man of the town, Teiresias. Oedipus came to the city and solved the sphinx's riddle and brought peace and prosperity back to Thebes. The tranquility did not last long though because in the town he was quickly crowned king and wed to the Queen of Thebes, Jocasta (Oedipus's mother).

s wretched fate until one day a drunken man in a pub told him the prophecy. In fear and love for his "parents" he ran from them and vowe

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