In many
respects, the story ofis at its core a story about fate's immutability. Oedipus was born under a
prophesy that he would kill his father, and to defeat his prophesied fate, Laius would attempt
to have Oedipus killed, having him left exposed in the wilderness to die. This attempt would
fail, and Oedipus would later be raised in Corinth by its king and queen.
Next he would travel to Delphi, where he would receive an oracle of his own: that he
would kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified by this, he decides to travel to Thebes,
unknowingly killing his biological father on the road. After defeating the Sphinx, Oedipus is
made king, and unbeknowst ti him, he marries his biological mother, , in the process. The power
of fate proves immutable, but at the same time, it is his own ignorance that proves key to his
fulfilling it.
is set in the aftermath of this
sequence of events, with Thebes suffering under a plague, sent in punishment for the murder
of...
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