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| From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], he was the son of [[King]] [[Laios]] and [[queen]] [[Jocasta]]. His [[parent]]s had heard a [[prophecy]] from an [[oracle]] telling them that their son was destined by [[fate]] to [[murder|kill]] his [[father]] and [[marriage|marry]] his [[mother]]. Accordingly, they took steps to abandon their [[baby]] [[boy]], but [[irony|ironically]], their actions enabled the prophecy to come true. Oedipus, as a [[youth|young man]], didn't know that a [[stranger|strange man]] was his father, and killed him; he later married his mother, not knowing her real [[identity]]. The [[tragedy]] was detailed in the [[drama]] ''[[Oedipus the King]]'' by [[Sophocles]]. Source: [[Elizabeth Vandiver]], [[Classics]] [[scholarship|scholar]], authority on [[Greek mythology]] and [[Greek tragedy]], including the ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]'', ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Homer]], and [[Virgil]]. This definition is based on her course ''Classical Mythology'' for [[The Teaching Company]].
| | In Greek mythology, the son of Laios and Jocasta who — without knowing it — killed his father and married his mother, making a prophecy come true. |
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In Greek mythology, the son of Laios and Jocasta who — without knowing it — killed his father and married his mother, making a prophecy come true.
