Before the book
starts
Before the story in the play starts there
were things that happened before. These are that
*Laius
and Jocasta had a baby (Oedipus).
*Tiresias tells
them about the prophecy on how the baby will kill Laius and marry Jocasta.
*Laius and Jocasta decide that they will kill their newborn baby.
*The king and queens servent is supposed to take the baby and leave him to die. Instead of doing
this he gives the baby to a shepherd who brings the baby to the king of Cornith who raises the baby.
*He gets the name Oedipus which means "swollen foot"
*Oedipus grows up and leaves Cornith and ends up meeting his father at the
3 crossroads and kills him.
* Oedipus then sees a
sphinx who wont let him pass unless he solves a riddle.
* Oedipus solves the riddle, kills the sphinx, ends a dark time in Thebes and becomes king
