Initially,attempts to ease 's mind by explaining to him that the prophecy regarding
Laius's fate was not fulfilled because he was murdered by three strangers at a place where the
three roads meet. It was prophesied that Laius's son would one day kill him. As a result of the
earlier prophecy, Laius and Jocasta took precautions by fusing their son's ankles together and
leaving him in the mountains to die as an infant.
Later on, aarrives from
Corinth and informs Jocasta that Oedipus's father, Polybus, has died from illness, which means
that the prophecy did not come true. Jocasta is once again reassured because she is under the
belief that Polybus is Oedipus's biological father. However, the messenger then informs Oedipus
that he is not Polybus's biological son and says that Oedipus was discovered as a child in the
mountains by a shepherd. The messenger recalls a shepherd saving Oedipus as an infant and then
bringing him to Polybus, who raised him as his son. It is at...
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