![]() ![]() Oedipus was made King of Thebes, and married Iocasta. He guessed the monster's riddle, and the Sphinx hurled herself from a rock. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oedipus continued his journey, and reached Thebes at the time when it was being plagued by the Sphinx. The fourth, who escaped, was the Theban shepherd who in old days had received the infant from Iocasta. A quarrel occurred: Oedipus slew Laius, and three of his four attendants. On his way he met Laius, King of Thebes, at the 'Branching Roads' in Phocis, without knowing who he was. He resolved never to go near Corinth again, and took the road leading eastwards into Boeotia. He went to ask the oracle at Delphi and was told that it was his destiny to slay his father and to wed his mother. Once at a feast the young Oedipus was taunted with not being really the son of Polybus. This man, in pity, gave it to a Corinthian shepherd whom he met in the hills, who took it to Corinth and there the child was brought up as the son of King Polybus and his wife Merope. When his wife Iocasta bore a son, the babe was given by its mother to a Theban shepherd, to expose on Mount Cithaeron. Laius, son of Labdacus, King of Thebes, had been told at Delphi by the oracle that a son would be born to him who should slay him. ![]()
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