The Dating Forum

[MrBig]

This is a Greek legend, in case you were thinking something else.

Oedipus was the son of Laius, king of Thebes, and his wife Jocasta, who was the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth.

Laius wished to thwart a prophecy saying that his child would grow up to murder his father and marry his mother. Thus, he fastened the infant's feet together with a large pin and left him to die on a mountainside.
The baby was found by shepherds and raised by the King and Queen of Corinth.

Once he had grown up Oedipus left for Thebes. On the road, Oedipus met an older man in a chariot coming the other way on a narrow road. The two quarreled over who should give way, which resulted in Oedipus killing the stranger and continuing on to Thebes.

He found that the king of the city (Laius) had been recently killed and that the city was at the mercy of the Sphinx. Oedipus answered the monster's riddle correctly, defeating it and winning the throne of the dead king and the hand in marriage of the king's widow, Jocasta.

Thus poor Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and unknowingly, married his own mother. The son and mother (now husband and wife) had two children.

When the facts were discovered, as they inevitably would be, Oedipus went insane and put out his own eyes. His mother Jacosta, having learned she had married her own son, and the murderer of her husband, King Laius, hanged herself.

A Greek tragedy of note. I say that road rage was to blame for it all. Remember the two chariots on the narrow road, mentioned earlier in the myth? If Laius had not lost his temper in his chariot, it could have all been avoided.

This myth later formed the basis of a Freudian psychoanalysis know as the Oedipus Complex. More about that later.

[sexysusan]

I've nearly done the same a few times. Maybe next time I'm in kzn I should, who knows, I could be the new queen there!