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Oedipus The King
The story of Oedipus is a tragic story. The story starts out with Oedipus being cursed by Apollo with a prophecy. The prophecy said that Oedipus will kill his father and sleep with his mother. Later, Oedipus leaves his parents and heads for Thebes. Along his way, comes a man in the center of a three way road way. Oedipus tells him to move and he refuses and Oedipus kills Laius, the king of Thebes and Oedipus real father. Then later on Oedipus becomes the King of Thebes and marries Jocasta, the Queen of Thebes and Oedipus real mother. Sooner or later, Jocasta and Oedipus sleep together and have children. Awhile after that, Oedipus sends out an investigation of who is the murderer of Laius. Oedipus has no clue that it was him that had killed
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