Wait...what happened in the Oedipus Story?

When Oedipus was a baby, an ORACLE tells his parents [King Laius and Queen Jocasta] that lil baby Oedipus will grow up to ----

• kill his father

• marry his mother

• both of these are correct

When Oedipus' father Laius hears the oracle, he decides to---

• run away

• kill his wife

• leave his baby on a mountainside to die

Lil baby Oedipus is found on the mountainside by a shepherd and taken to live with ---

• sheep

• King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth

• his cousins

Oedipus learns his fate told by the oracle [the whole kill dad/marry mom thing] and tries to run away, thinking that Polybus and Merope are his parents. Instead, he runs into---

• sheep

• his biological father, Laius--and he kills him, not knowing it's his biological father

• the river

While "running from his fate," he also earns the throne of Thebes by answering a riddle of the Sphinx. And that makes him the NEW husband of....

• sheep

• Antigone

• Jocasta, his biological mother

For several years Oedipus and Jocasta are married, having no idea that they are mother and son, until they learn the truth from...

• sheep

• Tiresias, a blind prophet

• Antigone

After Oedipus finds out he was married to his mom and killed his dad after all, he decides to...

• stab out his own eyes

• throw a party

• divorce his mom/wife

After Jocasta finds out she was married to her son, who also killed her husband, she decides to...

• run away

• throw a party

• hang herself

A theme that ancient Greek audiences could take from the story of Oedipus is...

• sheep

• throw a party

• humans cannot escape or control their fate/the will of the gods

After Oedipus dies, his two sons Polyneices and Eteocles:

• kill each other fighting over the throne

• join forces to rule and make a happy ending for their family

• write a book and use their family's crazy story to make money