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Oedipus King of Thebes

Oedipus Sophocles wrote this very famous play in the 500's BC.SophoclesBC

What is it about? It is mainly about fate and how men do not control their own fate no matter how much they try.

fate Fate- oracle

BABY Laius and Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes, had a baby. Laius went to the oracle at Delphi to ask about it.oracle at Delphi

Baby

But the oracle told Laius that his son would murder him. Laius ordered that his baby son should be left alone in the woods with a pin through his feet to keep him from crawling away.

Future teller

But the baby was rescued and taken to the king and queen of CorinthCorinth who wanted a son and couldn't have one, and they adopted him.

The queen of Corinth called the baby Oedipus, which means swollen foot. But she didn't tell Oedipus that he was adopted.

When Oedipus grew up, he also listened to an oracle.oracle The oracle told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He was horrified, and ran away from Corinth that night, trying to escape his fate.

As he traveled down the road in his chariot, he came to a crossroads. Another chariot came to the crossroads at the same time, but it went through without letting Oedipus go. Oedipus was angry at this and got out and killed the other man.

When Oedipus got to the town of Thebes, he found the great Sphinx there.

The Sphinx sat in front of Thebes and asked everyone who came there a riddle. If you could answer it, the Sphinx let you go, but if you could not answer the riddle, then the Sphinx ate you. Nobody ever knew the answer. This was the Sphinx's riddle:

What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?

When Oedipus answered the riddle correctly, the Sphinx was so upset that she killed herself. Oedipus went on into Thebes. When he got there, the Thebans were very upset because somebody had killed their king, Laius.

But they were happy to hear that Oedipus had figured out the riddle of the Sphinx. So they made Oedipus their new king. As part of becoming the new king, Oedipus married the queen, Jocasta.

Many years went by. Oedipus and Jocasta had four children, two boys and two girls, and they got old.

One day a plague came to Thebes. All over Thebes, people were dying of the plague.plague King Oedipus sent a messenger to the oracle at Delphi to find out why the gods had sent this terrible plague. oracle gods

The oracle told the messenger that Thebes had a bad man in it and they had to find him and get rid of him or the plague would go on killing people

Oedipus tries to find out who this bad man might be, and with the help of the blind seer Tiresias he gradually realizes that he himself, Oedipus, is the bad man because he has killed his father (the man at the crossroads) and married his mother, just as the oracle said he would.

He pokes out his own eyes with a stick. When Jocasta hears the news, she hangs herself until she is dead. Finally, Oedipus leaves Thebes with his children, so that the gods will take the plague away, and wanders off toward Athens.