, king of
Thebes, is determined to find out the cause of the plague ravishing the city, little suspecting
the cause is him.
He sends , his brother-in-law, to the oracle at Athens.
Creon informs the court on his return that the plague will lift once the person who murdered the
late King Laius is banished from Thebes. Oedipus angrily declares that justice will be done to
this murderer. When the seerwarns him not to investigate the matter any further, Oedipus pushes
his advice aside. Oedipus is so filled with pride orthat he can't imagine he could possibly be
the wrongdoer.
Unfortunately, the story comes out that Oedipus murdered Laius
on the road from Corinth to Thebes, when Laius and his party would not move aside to let him
pass. Oedipus also learns that Laius is his father and that, his wife, is his mother.
Ironically, Oedipus thought that by leaving Corinth he was beating the prophecy that he would
murder his father and marry his mother. He did not know...
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