... answer, lifting a curse on Thebes, allowing Oedipus to become King, win the hand of Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and have 4 children: Eteocles, Polynice, Antigone, and Ismene. The reader discovers the first element of Aristotle's definition at the height of Oedipus" reign as King. An excellent ruler, Oedipus assures the ... to Aristotle occurs when Oedipus discovers he was the baby that was the child of Laius, whose wife, Jocasta, ordered to have Oedipus killed for she had been told that she would be killed by her own son. Oedipus screams, realizing the truth and flees back into the palace o...

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... consider that the prophecy is not self fulfilling or conditional, or in other words some claim that even though it might be accepted that they existed for purposes of mythology, they do not cause the issues that happen, humans do.  In his essay "On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex", E.R. Dodds draws ... instead of investigating himself. One can therefore say that there was not much difference in character between the two while even with the desire for the truth being understood Oedipus could have handled the investigation better. It namely, already seems as if there was nothing else t...

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