The story of Odipus

the king and the queen of derbis were married for a long time without bearing.

and he cried for a son, and came to the temple, seeking a saying, “you will have a son.” but the god of destiny has decreed that you shall die in his hands.” the king was convinced of this message, so he separated from his wife to avoid having children.

but a deep love caused them to sleep with one another, despite the warning of god, and the queen gave him a son.

when the child was born, the parents remembered the message of god: three days after the birth of the child, they had sent the baby to the desolate mountain, but those who carried out it had pityed the innocent child, handed him over to a shepherd who had raised the sheep on the slopes, then went back to falsely claiming that the order had been fulfilled.

the couple believed that the child would surely starve to death or eat the beast, and therefore believed that the message would not be fulfilled and that they would live in peace.

the shepherd named the child odipus and took him to the neighboring kingdom and gave him to the king there.

without children, the king took the poor abandoned baby and treated him as his own son.

odipus grew up believing he was the king's son and heir.

but by accident, he fell from the peak of confidence to the abyss of despair.

a man has always been jealous of his special status, and at one of his parties, he shouted oedipus because he was drunk, saying he was not the king's own son.

odipus was so excited that he came to his parents to ask for the truth.

the king and the queen were very angry at the wrong-doing and tried to dispel the doubts of their sons.

oedipus still suspects that he went quietly to the temple to pray for god.

but god did not reply to him, but gave him a more terrible and unfortunate prophecy: “you will kill your father, you will marry your biological mother, and you will give birth to an evil offspring.” oedipus was in a state of shock because he always believed that the king and queen who raised him were his biological parents.

he never again dared to go home, fearing that the god of destiny would make him kill his father and then marry his mother.

what a horror! finally, he decided to leave the country: as he reached a crossroads, he looked across the street at him and looked at a wagon headed towards him, with a strange old man in it, a messenger, a driver and two servants.

the driver, seeing a man across the street, violently told him to make way.

oedipus was a lively hurried, waved a punch at the rude driver.

when the old man in the car saw him so rude, he hit him in the head with a whip.

odipus was so angry that he hit the old man with his stick.

he thought that he had avenged him for self-defense.

he did not think that the old man he had killed was his biological father.

the king was thinking of the temple of petia.

that's the way the father and his son are avoiding the message, and it's a tragic response.

soon after oedipus killed his father, he came to his father's country, where there was a winged monster, svenks.

she has a pretty head, a lion's body.

she makes all sorts of riddles, people who can't guess themshe tore it up and ate it.

this monster happens to be in the city at a time of mourning for the murder of the king by unknown passers-by, and it is now the queen's brother, creon, who is in power.

sphinx is extremely dangerous, and creon was forced to post a public notice that whoever can get rid of a monster outside the city can get the throne and marry his sister.

so, odips volunteered to answer the puzzle, and svenks said, "four legs in the morning, two legs in the morning, three legs in the evening.

of all the creatures, this is the only one that walks with a different number of legs.

when you have the most legs, you have the least power and speed.” oedipus hears this riddle, he can't help but laugh, it's easy.

“it's a man,” he replied, “a man is a weak child in his youth, in the morning of life, who crawls on the ground with two legs and two hands; when he reaches maturity, he walks at noon of life, of course only with two legs; but when he reaches old age, it is the lateness of life, with crutches, as if he were walking on three legs.” he got it, svenks, ashamed and desperate to jump off the rocks and fall dead.

creon fulfilled his promise by handing over the kingdom to odip and placing the king ' s widow with him as his wife.

odipus certainly didn't know she was her birth mother.

odiphu is a good and honest king who has managed his country well and enjoys the love and respect of his people.

a few years later, the secret was revealed.

the queen hanged herself in her room, and odips came to the desert where his parents abandoned him, at the mercy of the god of destiny。