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- I cannot leave this child to die. Please take him
- We will take this child and raise it as our own.
- I need to leave so i do not full fill this fate!
- You are going to kill your father and marry your mother.
- The King and Queen received a prophecy about their child that he was going to kill his father and marry his mother. After hearing this, the King ordered a servant to take him out and string him up by wholes in his feet for beasts to tat him. The servant could not let this happen to the baby, so he gave it to a shepherd, who would nurse it back to health.
- What has four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?
- A man!
- Once the baby was healthy again, the shepherd named him Oedipus. The shepherd brought it to the king and queen of Corinth. They were childless, so they took him in as their own and raised him. He always believed they were his true parents.
- Once Oedipus was grown, he went to a an oracle. This oracle told him the same thing that was told to his birth parents, that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Still believing his adaptive parents gave birth to him, he fled to avoid full filling the prophecy. He would flea to the city Thebes.
- On his way to Thebes, he encountered a chariot driven by King Lais, his father. He did not know this was his father. The two got into argument and Oedipus killed King Lais. This fulfilled part of the prophecy. Once he got close to the city, he got stopped by a sphinx. This sphinx tormented the city and scared its citizens. In order to pass into the city, he had to solve a riddle. What has four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night? Oedipus answered correctly. Since he solved the solved the riddle correctly, the sphinx jumped off the cliff snd died.
- The brother of the queen, Queen Jocasta, promised that whoever took down the sphinx would be named king and would marry the queen. Since Oedipus freed the people of the city from the torment of the sphinx, he was crowned king and married Jocasta, his birth mother. This finished finishing the prophecy. He did not know this was his mother. Together, they would have four children. He reigned for many years and the people loved him.
- After successfully reigning for years, Oedipus found out that he was the one who killed his birth father and Jocasta, his wife, was his mother. The prophecy was true.After hearing the news, Jocasta killed herself. When Oedipus found Jocasta after she hung herself, he took a pin and stabbed his own eyes out. He was then exiled from the city. After years of roaming the desert, he died in Colonus.
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