Oedipus story was very interesting because the prophecy told Oedipus parents that his son will murder his father and marry his mother. So Oedipus' father "fastened the infant's feet together with a large pin and left him to die on a mountainside". Shepards found him and raised him but in the end he still killed his father and married his own mother. When they both realized this his mother/ wife killed herself and "Oedipus seized a pin from her dress and blinded himself with it." He then was driven to exile with his two children, Antigone and Ismene. After wondering for years he arrived at Colonus. Where he later died. the presence of his grave was said to bring good fortune to Athens.
I found it interesting that the prophecy was so accurate and there was nothing anyone can do about it. Even after he left Oedipus to die he was found raised and still killed his father without knowing who he was.
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