... were threatened so badly by their predicted fate that they were willing to kill their own son to possibly save themselves. Jocasta explains the attempted murder, "As for the child I bore him, not three days passed before he yoked the ball-joints of its feet, then cast it, by other's hands, on a trackless mountain" (OR 722-724). While Oedipus is an ... , the Thebans make Oedipus their king and give him Jocasta's hand in marriage making the second part of his prophecy come true. Jocasta who, unknown to him, is his mother bore him two sons and two daughters. He reigns long in peace and hono...

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... his father's murderer and his mother's lover. He has committed two of the sins which the gods consider the worst. Guilt-stricken, he gouges out his eyes: "To this guilt I bore witness against myself- with what eyes shall I look upon my people?" (1384-1385). His wife and mother, Jocasta, hangs herself. He is cast out and his children, the products of ... ...

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... people of Thebes who were suffering from death and famine, Oedipus immediately agreed and promised them that he would do his best in solving the problems, saying that his heart bore "the weight of his own" and "all of his people's sorrows". He promised to "bring everything to light". Oedipus was also a good son. When he first learned about the prophecy ... ...

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... love with and later married. She not only helped him obtain the Golden Fleece from her own country, but fled with him to his homeland to build a new life. Medea bore two children with Jason and looked to having a future with him. "But, of course, the heart of the play is the quarrel between Medea and Jason, the deserted wife and ... ...

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... to have a child. Should they do so, this child was cursed to murder his father and impregnate his mother. However, Laius and Jocasta paid no regard to this warning and bore a child, who they abandoned and was later found and reared by a wealthy couple in a near by city. Once Oedipus had grown, an oracle told him that he would kill his ... ...

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