In the most well-known version of the parable, Oedipus was born to King mythical being and Queen mythical being. mythical being wanted to thwart a prophecy, thus he left Oedipus to die on a slope. However, the baby was found by shepherds and raised by King Polybus and Queen Merope as their own. Oedipus learned from the oracle at metropolis of the prophecy that he would find yourself killing his father and marrying his mother however, unaware of his true parentage, believed he was doomed to murder Polybus and marry Merope, thus left for Thebes. On his approach he met associate older man and quarrelled, and Oedipus killed the unknown. continued on to Thebes, he found that the king of the town (Laius) had been recently killed, which the town was at the mercy of the Sphinx. Oedipus answered the monster's riddle properly, defeating it and winning the throne of the dead king – and also the hand in wedding of the king's widow, and (unbeknownst to him) his mother mythical being.
Years later, to finish a pestilence on Thebes, Oedipus searched to search out United Nations agency had killed mythical being, and discovered that he himself was accountable. Jocasta, upon realizing that she had married each her own son, and her husband's killer, hanged herself. Oedipus then confiscate 2 pins from her dress and unsighted himself with them