The chorus concluding that happiness is fleeting for mortals is what happens last in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).
Specifically, former Theban King Oedipus meets with his daughters, Princesses Antigone and Ismene, and with Creon, his brother-in-law and royal colleague. Creon has everybody go back inside the royal palace. The chorus summarizes the meeting and observes the equivalent that unhappiness is a side effect of life for mortals
Oedipus marries Jocasta.
Suicide is what happens to Oedipus' queen in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Jocasta is Theban King Oedipus' queen. In the last part of the play, she correctly deduces that Oedipus is her son, the killer of her first husband, King Laius, and the half-brother of his children with her. The knowledge causes her to hang herself with the threads from her own robes.
Last of the choice of four events in 'Oedipus Rex' is Theban King Oedipus' marriage to Theban Queen Jocasta. Third is Oedipus' freeing Thebes from the beastly, bullying Sphinx. Second is Oedipus' killing of four out of five men at a crossroads where three paths meet. First is Oedipus' flight from Corinth.
Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother.
"Rex" is Latin for "King". Oedipus Rex means "Oedipus the King".
Thebes is the setting of Oedipus Rex because it is the place where the story begins.
'King' is an English equivalent of 'Rex' in the play 'Oedipus Rex'.
Suicide is what happens to the Sphinx when Oedipus solves the riddle in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Sphinx demands upon pain of death the answer to an impossible riddle. Oedipus figures out the answer and thereby deprives the Sphinx of her food supply. In despair, she throws herself over a nearby cliff.
Death is what happens to Polybus in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Corinthian King Polybus dies of illness and old age. His death happens while he is in Corinth. He is supposed to be succeeded by his presumed son, Theban King Oedipus, who is ruling in Thebes when the death occurs.
The shepherd in Oedipus Rex is the person who rescues Oedipus Rex as a child. The shepherd also confirms the main character's fate.
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
Oedipus Rex is part of a four part collection of plays, three tradgedies and a comedy. We do not have the Comedy but the three tradgedies are "Oedipus Rex", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone".