2007-01-11 14:54:09 · 10 answers · asked by A List of Atrocities 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
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2007-01-11 15:00:29 · update #1
Not a Roman deity, but a Grecian King. You are thinking of Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King). When he was born, the local seer prophecied that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Trying to prevent this, his parents drove a pin through his ankles, and gave their infant son to a shepherd, with the command to abandon the infant in the wild. The shepherd had pity on the tyke, and gave him instead to the first person he ran into: another shepherd from the city down the road. This shepherd delivered the poor baby to his master, the king (next door) who raised Oedipus ("lame foot") as his own son and heir.
Mature Prince Oedipus sought his fortune at a local soothsayer, only to hear the same frightful prophecy. He fled the city he had been raised in, seeking his fortune elsewhere. As he travelled, he was nearly driven off a cliff by a mad nobleman in a chariot and his cohorts. He killed the company in self-defense. A few adventures later, he found himself in a strange city, welcomed as a hero by the grieving young queen, whose husband had just died. Since the king had expired with no heir, and he was the only hero in the area, Prince Oedipus married the beautiful young queen, and they had 3 kids (2 boys, 1 girl).
20 years later, the young, beautiful queen was still young and beautiful, for she was preserved by magic. King Oedipus finds out, through a tragic turn of events, that the very tragedy everyone had tried to prevent had instead come to pass--through the very means used to avoid it. The brutal nobleman he had killed was his biological father. His "young and beautiful" queen was really his 60+ year old biological mother. Horrified with shame, the Queen killed herself. Oedipus gouged out his own eyes, and became a wandering beggar. His sons were killed in an insurrection, and his daughter was executed for trying to bury them.
2007-01-11 15:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles.A Seer foretells that the King's first-born son will kill the King and marry the King's wife,his mother.The Baby is given to the King's shepherd to be taken out and left for the wolves to slaughter,but the shepherd becomes attached to the child and raises him as his own,never telling him of his origins.Long story short ,the prophesy comes true.The story is patterned after the succession of the year-king,which would have been well known in pre-Christian Greece.Mary Renault"s novel "The King Must Die" which is about the life of Theseus has much interesting information about ancient greece in an enjoyable,palatable form.
2007-01-11 15:17:45 · answer #2 · answered by kevin k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oedipus. He wasn't a god, and he was Greek, not Roman
i laught for hours and hours after i hears that
2007-01-11 15:00:10 · answer #3 · answered by francisco_j_c_o 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legend is that a man namde Oedipus from greece married his mother following the death of his father, both of left oedipus when in his younger years.
2007-01-11 15:01:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oedipus. He wasn't a god, and he was Greek, not Roman.
2007-01-11 14:57:50 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't a god and his name was Oedipus.
2007-01-11 14:55:58 · answer #6 · answered by Izzy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Different names appear in everything from Scripture, to History books of same/similar topics. I say one name should apply. Moron.
2007-01-11 14:59:42 · answer #7 · answered by mld m 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And he wasn't roman he was greek.
2007-01-11 14:57:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh i remember this story but he wasn't a god
2007-01-11 14:56:57 · answer #9 · answered by ghetto fabolous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wasn't it zeus or something like that or one of his kids
2007-01-11 14:56:23 · answer #10 · answered by Ayyy631 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋