CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Adrastus, Tydeus, Eteocles

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

Oedipus (cid:862)the si(cid:374)s of the fathers shall (cid:448)isit the heads of their (cid:272)hildre(cid:374), yea, u(cid:374)to the 3rd generation. Laios king of thebes , has a wife names jocasta. Is the first human to court a boy previously only the gods did that. Chrissipos and eventually he commits suicide (this is bad karma) Laios hears a prophecy that the son born to his wife is going to kill him. Laios at first tries to never sleep with his wife but that doesn"t work out and she gives birth to a healthy young male and laios is afraid of it. Oedipus (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)s(cid:449)olle(cid:374) foot(cid:863)- (cid:449)he(cid:374) the (cid:272)hild is (cid:271)or(cid:374) laios (cid:374)ails the (cid:272)hild"s two feet together and says let him expose himself on the mountain (basically to die) The sheppard happens to know that the queen and king of corinth cant have children so he gives it to his queen and king and they bring up oedipus as a prince of corinth.