Are the children he has with his mother, Jocasta, his brothers and sisters or his sons and daughters or a mixture of the two?
2006-11-11 14:34:17 · 5 answers · asked by chris 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Actually they are his children and half-siblings.
Step-sibs are relatives by marriage only and do not share any blood/genetics and the relationship ends when the marriage does, half-sibs share a parent and are still sibs if the marriage ends.
So Oedipus, son of Jocasta, marries his birth mother and has children with her--Antigone, Ismene, Polynices and Eteocles. Since Oedipus and his children all have the same mother but different fathers, they are half-sibs and since he's also their father, they are his children---who needs soap operas, the classics have 'em beat!
2006-11-11 16:56:50 · answer #1 · answered by Invisigoth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oedipus......and he's a fictional character in a pair of performs by way of Sophocles: Oedipus the King (or Oedipus Rex) and Oedipus at Colonus. this is a enormously unwell tale. Sigmund Freud even coined a term the place a guy is warm for his mom....the Oedipus complicated.
2016-12-17 08:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by yakel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both. If a pair of twins marry each other, they're children are brothers and sisters, regardless of which couple they come from. They would have the same genetic makeup.
2006-11-11 17:45:08 · answer #3 · answered by analystdevil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they would be his sons and daughters, and I guess his step brothers and sisters, they had the same mother but different fathers.
2006-11-11 14:45:24 · answer #4 · answered by ashley k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both his children and his step-siblings.
2006-11-11 15:33:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋