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Oedipus, in Greek legend, son of Laius, king of Thebes, and his wife, Jocasta. Laius had been warned by an physic that he was destined to be killed by his own son; he then abandoned Oedipus on a mountainside. The baby was rescued, however, by a shepherd and brought to the king of Corinth, who adopted him. When Oedipus was grown, he learned from the Delphic physic that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He left Corinth to escape this fate, believing his foster parents to be his real parents. At a crossroad he encountered Laius, quarreled with him, and killed him. Technically Oedipus did not inherit the throne from his father, the king, but he got it anyway. Jocasta hung herself, and Oedipus took two gold pins from her garment and stabbed his eyes out. The reason he stabbed his eyes out was because he didnt know who he had married or killed and and stabbed his eyes out because he had did such things.

OEDIPUS is a character of high standing who was brought down from a fatal flaw, his flaw was hubris, or pride, he thought that he could get away from fate, in the Greek and Roman tragedies and in their life they believed strongly in fate, and that people could not escape it no matter how strongly they fight it. The delphi oracle is always right in their eyes. This was Oedipus flaw, he tried to get stop a prophecy but in doing so he caused the thing he was trying to escape from.

PEOPLE OEDIPUS WAS RELATED TO WAS

OEdipus, King of Thebes Creon, brother of Jocasta Teiresias, a soothsayer Priest of Zeus Messenger from Corinth Shepherd Second Messenger Jocasta, wife of OEdipus

I personally would not be freinds with him because he is a murderer.He killed his own father.I think he's tryphalin because he married his own mother.With that being said I will not be friends with Oedipus.:-)