The excerpt comes from the story of the timeless "House of Thebes", this tells the story of the Phoenician princess Europa and how she was carried off over the sea by a bull. Her father, Agenor, commanded his sons, including Cadmus, to find her. They all failed in their attempt, and while his brothers went on to found colonies of their own, Cadmus went to Delphi where the oracle told him to give up the search, to find a cow with special markings, follow it, and found a city where the cow would stop to rest.
The line that best support the inference that Oedipus is a proud man is:
I, Oedipus, whose fame all men acknowledge.
