Sophocles' Oedipus, the King is a great representation of Greek tragedy and of the human experience. ... Most generally it was that it was prophesied that Laios and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes, would give birth to a child who would grow up to murder his father and marry his mother. ... Moreover, that he was found by a wandering shepherd who took him to the nearby city of Corinth where he was adopted by the childless King Polybos and Queen Merope who raised him as a son and prince in the royal household. ... The story begins after some time after Oedipus has taken the throne and when...

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