Oedipus Myth
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- Your son will kill his father and marry his mother!
- Get rid of the child!!
- Let's keep him!
- A few years later...
- You will kill your father and marry your mother!
- I have to leave to protect them!
- A prophecy tells King Laius and Queen Jocasta that their son will grow up to kill his father and marry his mother.
- Die stranger!
- Laius and Jocasta send their son to be killed. Instead, a couple from Corinth decides to adopt him and name him Oedipus.
- You cannot pass unless you solve my riddle!
- Congratulations, my king!
- When Oedipus is older, he learns about the prophecy. He thinks it's about his adoptive parents so he runs away to protect them!
- While running away, Oedipus fights with a stranger in the street and kills him.
- Oedipus reaches a city called Thebes that is being guarded by a sphinx. In order to save Thebes, Oedipus has to solve the sphinx's riddle--or else he'll be eaten!
- Oedipus solves the riddle and saves Thebes. As a reward, he gets to marry the recently widowed queen and he becomes the new king!
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