Question

When Oedipus was born, ________. Group of answer choices his true parents died, and he was adopted by the king and queen of Corinth his ankles were fastened together and he was left to die he was stolen by soldiers from Corinth and raised there the shepherd swapped him with his own son, in order to make his son a prince

Answer 1

When Oedipus was born, to the king and queen of Thebes, Group of answer choices his true parents died.

• Oedipus was born to Laius and Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes, and a prophet prophesied that he would grow up to kill his father and wed his mother.
• King Laius, in sadness, gave the order to one of his attendants to kill the child in order to prevent such a tragic conclusion.
• After learning from an oracle that he, King Laius of Thebes, would die at the hands of his own son soon after Oedipus was born, Laius gave his wife Jocasta the order to murder the child.
• He was left to the elements since neither she nor her servant had the strength to kill him.

What is the truth of Oedipus birth?

• Laius, king of Thebes, was forewarned by an oracle that his son would kill him, according to one version of the narrative.
• As a result, when his wife Jocasta (Iocaste; in Homer, Epicaste) gave birth to a son, he had the child exposed on Cithaeron (a type of infanticide).

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