Oedipus Rex
Sophocles’ tragedy of the king of Thebes who hunts the murderer polluting his city and finds himself. The Delphic oracle told Laius his son would kill him, and told Oedipus he would kill his father and marry his mother, and every step taken to avoid it brings it about. Printed here in Robert Fagles’ translation with the other two Theban plays, Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus.
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Carissa Véliz
The Delphic Oracle tells Oedipus that he will sleep with his own mother and slay his father. Oedipus, desperate to avoid that happening, leaves Corinth, where the couple he thinks are his parents live, and heads for Thebes. Unbeknownst to Oedipus, his real parents, Laius and Jocasta, are the king and queen of Thebes… Spoiler alert, the prediction, despite seeming unlikely, comes true in both respects.
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