• Oedipus went to the sphinx to solve its riddle and

he answered it correctly, the reward was the

kingship of Thebes and marrying the Queen (his
mother), fulfilling the phropecy.
• Oedipus became the new ruler of Thebes and had
4 children’s with the Queen.
• Oedipus faces problem, a plague was consuming
his kingdom and people believes as a curse of
the God’s because of the old kings death.
• Oedipus started to searched for the kings murderer
in a manner of accusing everybody whom he
believed the suspect.

• As a young man, Oedipus heard a rumor that

he was not the biological son of king Polybus
and Merope, but he just ignored it.
• The oracle has a phropecy to Oedipus that he
is to kill his father and mate his mother.
• Oedipus decided to leave Corinth, hoping to
prevent the phropecy from happening.
• On his way, he had killed a man who
happened to be his biological father due to an
argument on the road, fulfilling some of the
phropecy.

• The king of Thebes Laius and Queen Jocasta had given

a birth to a son, who soon to replace his father on the
throne.
• A prophecy had been told that king Laius is to perish by
the hand of his own son, so the king ordered to exile
his son and leave him to his death in the Jungle.
• The baby (Oedipus) was not killed but instead the
messenger cast him away to Corinth of which he was
adopted by King Polybus and Merope.
• The baby was named Oedipus and now a young man
believing that his parents were the ruler Corinth.