Oedipus the King: What is the significance of the plays title? What does it suggest about the authors overall emphasis?

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(or  the King) is a Greekwritten byand
performed circa 429 BC. The play focuses on the aftermath of a fulfilled prophecy that predicted
that Oedipus would kill his father, Laius, and wed his mother, . It is understood at the
beginning of the play that Oedipus has done just that; in his attempt to avoid his fate (which
he had heard from the Oracle of Delphi), Oedipus--who had been abandoned on a mountainside as a
child by Laius and adopted by King Polybus and Queen Merope--leaves for Thebes. On the road to
his destination, he meets and kills his biological father, and upon reaching Thebes, he wins his
mother's hand in marriage by answering the riddle of the Sphinx. 

Oedipus Rex begins after these events have occurred but before
Oedipus has realized that the prophecy has been fulfilled. The plot follows...

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