As far as Jocasta knows, she abandoned her baby boy to exposure, starvation, and wild beasts for nothing. In this section, Jocasta is both careless and maternal. She tells Oedipus that prophecies do not come true, and she uses the fact that an oracle incorrectly prophesied that Laius would be killed by his own son as evidence. A shepherd took pity on the infant, who was adopted by King Polybus of Corinth and his wife and was brought up as their son.
In early manhood Oedipus visited Delphi and upon learning that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother, he resolved never to return to Corinth. In Oedipus the King, Jocasta kills herself because she is ashamed for having become intimate with her son, Oedipus. She wants him to treat Jeremiah well, which insults Roger completely.
Claire surmises that glaucoma, a degenerative condition that damages the optic nerve, is the likeliest culprit. King Laius of Thebes was told by the oracle of Apollo that the son born to his queen Jocasta would kill his father and marry his mother. The servant was very compassionate and handed it over to a shepherd of Corinth. The Corinthian shepherd gave the child to the childless king Polybus of Corinth.
When he became young he heard vague rumours that he was not the son of Polybus. The messenger totally bursts the King's bubble, though. It turns out that this guy is actually the shepherd who found Oedipus on the mountain and brought him to Corinth. So, now, Oedipus knows for sure that Polybus wasn't his real dad. Jocasta, remembering the prophecy that made her abandon her son, puts it all together at this point.
She begs Oedipus not to pursue the truth any further, but he insists. Next thing you know, the survivor of the attack shows up and confirms that Oedipus is the killer. In some versions, the survivor guy is also the dude who took baby Oedipus up on the mountain.
The whole truth comes crashing down on Oedipus like a ton of bricks. As if things weren't bad enough, Oedipus finds that Jocasta has hung herself. This makes him really go off the deep end, and he yanks a pin from her robe and stabs out his eyes. After this, Creon exiles Oedipus and the blind man wanders the wilderness with only his dedicated daughter, Antigone, to guide him.
Eventually, Oedipus and Antigone end up in a town called Colonus, which is just outside of Athens. Oedipus is broken and old, and he's been told by a prophecy that he's meant to die here in a grove dedicated to the Erinyes aka the Furies. Just then, Ismene shows up and gives them some bad news from Thebes. It turns out that in Oedipus's absence, Polyneices and Eteocles have been sharing the rule of Athens.
They'd agreed to switch off ruling Thebes every year. When the time came for Eteocles to step down, though, he refused and exiled his brother.
So, Polyneices went off and married a princess whose dad had a big army, and now he's at the gates determined to take back the throne. Creon shows up, representing Eteocles, and tries to convince the dying Oedipus to come back to Thebes to be buried, because a prophecy has said that wherever Oedipus is buried will be blessed.
Polyneices shows up too and also tries to get Oedipus's blessing. Oedipus tells them both to buzz off. In some versions, he curses his sons to kill each other in battle, because he feels like they neglected him all these years, unlike his devoted Antigone. Creon takes Antigone and Ismene hostage to try and force Oedipus to do what he wants. Just in the nick of time, though, King Theseus of Athens steps in and saves the girls. Theseus grants asylum to Oedipus, allowing the old blind man to die in peace.
His body is buried in secret somewhere near Athens, and the city receives his blessing. Theseus refuses, though, saying that nobody can ever know where Oedipus is buried. Antigone is super worried about the civil war between her brothers in Thebes, though, so she heads back home and To be continued!
Cithaeron while he was herding sheep. At what point of the story does Jocasta realize that Oedipus is her son who killed his father Laius? When Jocasta observes that Oedipus is too much troubled by the accusation of Teiresias as that he was leiller ofhis own father, she tries to alleviate his worries by saying that prophets are often wrong.
Oedipus, realizing that he truly did kill his father and marry his mother, runs back into the Palace, where he finds Jocasta dead, having hanged herself when she realized what she had done. Seeing this, Oedipus tears the pins off her dress and uses them to gouge out his own eyes.
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