King Oedipus
King Oedipus was born of thebes. his mother and father sent him away after a prophet of apollo told them that he would kill his father and marry his mother. they sent him to be killed but the servants couldn't kill him so they gave him away to another shepherd which brought him to corinth. he left this country once he found out about his terrible message from the oracle. he wound up in thebes and had to answer the riddle of a sphinx to save the country which he did successfully. he then became the king of thebes and married his mother which he did not know then. A plague wipes over the country and Oedipus finds out that he is the reason for the plague. He then finds out that he has killed his father and married his mother. When his wife realizes what he's done she hangs herself and Oedipus cuts out his eyes and is sent to the mountain where he was first abandoned to.