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Why did Oedipus sleep with his mom?
He decided to leave Corinth for Delphi, so he could learn of his parentage at the oracle of Apollo. There he was given the news that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother. To prevent the oracle from coming true, Oedipus went to Thebes.
Did Oedipus mom know he was her son?
Though named after Sophocles’ Jocasta, she did not experience this complex. Though she is in love with Oedipus, she does not know at the time of their marriage that he is her son.
Did Oedipus know he slept with his mother?
Oedipus fully accepts that he has married (and slept with) his own mother, just as Jocasta accepts she has married and slept with her son. Jocasta kills herself over it, and Oedipus blinds himself as a result. These are extreme reactions to unintentionally violating the taboo of incest.
What was Oedipus kids name?
Antigone
Ismene
Oedipus/Children
Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx killed herself. In reward, he received the throne of Thebes and the hand of the widowed queen, his mother, Jocasta. They had four children: Eteocles, Polyneices, Antigone, and Ismene.
What is it called when a mother is in love with her son?
In psychoanalytic theory, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.
How are Oedipus and his father the same?
Oedipus and his father have, like two ships in one port, shared the same “wide harbor,” and Oedipus has plowed the same “furrows” his father plowed (1334–1339). The harbor image ostensibly refers to Jocasta’s bedchamber, but both images also quite obviously refer to the other space Oedipus and his father have shared: Jocasta’s vagina.
Where did Oedipus live with his four children?
After the events of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus and his four children live in Thebes until the children are young adults. Oedipus then exiles himself to Colonus, and he takes Antigone with him to care for him as he grows old. Ismene, Eteocles, and Polynices stay behind in Thebes.
What happens at the end of Oedipus Rex?
At the end of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus blinds himself, and he asks for his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, to be brought to him. It’s interesting that he doesn’t ask for his sons, Eteocles and Polyneices; although, as he explains to Creon, they’re men, and they can fend for themselves in the world. OEDIPUS. I reck not how Fate deals with me
When did Sophocles write the story of Oedipus Rex?
When Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex, he knew quite well what was going to happen to Antigone and Ismene, because he’d already written a play about them. Sophocles wrote Antigone in about 441 BCE, twelve years before he wrote Oedipus Rex.