Oedipus, king of Thebes
Jocasta, his wife and birth mother
Laius, former king of Thebes, Jocasta's husband, Oedipus's
father
Pelops
Chrysippus
Antigone
Ismene
Eteocles
Polynices
Creon, Jocasta's brother
Euphorbus
Polybus of Corinth, Oedipus's foster father
Dorian Merope, his foster mother
Tiresias
Adrastus
Theseus, Greek hero, ruler of Athens
Cadmus, founder of Thebes
Spartoi
Sphinx
Agenor
Europa
Electra
Furies
autochthonous
apotheosis
miasma
Thebes, Boeotia
Tyre, Phoenicia
Argos
Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.)
Oedipus the King or Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)