Oedipus mother's name was Jocasta
Oedipus' wife but also mother
Odysseus didn't kill his father, you're thinking of Oedipus
Theban King Oedipus is father to and half brotherof Antigone. Specifically, he and his daughter have the same mother. But Oedipus is Theban Queen Jocasta's only child from her first marriage to Theban King Laius. Antigone is one of four children that Jocasta has in her second marriage, to her own son.
Oedipus was 'adopted' into a family and when he heard while still a youth from the Oracle that he would murder his father and marry his mother he left Corinth never to return. Unfortunately he met up with and after a violent disagreement killed his real father. Later on he married that mans widow, his mother. Truly, as in the words of Tom Lehrer, 'a tragic end to a loyal son, who loved his mother'.
Creon is Oedipus's uncle.
Jocasta, Oedipus' mother is the mother and grandmother of Oedipus' children.
No, Oedipus' mother (Jocasta) kills herself.
Jocasta is the Queen of Thebes and the mother of Oedipus.
Jocasta is Oedipus' real mother in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta is King Oedipus' real biological mother. But she last sees him when he is three days old. She thinks that he is dead, and Oedipus believes his mother to be someone else.
Oedipus Oedipus
After Oedipus and his mother discovered the truth that Oedipus had married and had children with his mother, she hanged herself and he blinded himself with two pins from her dress and was exiled to Athens.
He indeed marries his mother and has for kids with her. Oedipus was not aware that she was his mother. When they find out that he married his mother, she kills herself and he scratches his own eyes out.
Antigone's mother was Jocasta, wife of Oedipus, who was Antigone's father. The play Oedipus Rex, in which Antigone is a non-speaking character, describes the relationship of Jocasta and Oedipus - unbeknownst to them, Jocasta was actually Oedipus' mother in addition to his wife. When they learn this, Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus blinds himself.
Antigone's mother was Jocasta, wife of Oedipus, who was Antigone's father. The play Oedipus Rex, in which Antigone is a non-speaking character, describes the relationship of Jocasta and Oedipus - unbeknownst to them, Jocasta was actually Oedipus' mother in addition to his wife. When they learn this, Jocasta kills herself and Oedipus blinds himself.
Antigone and Ismene are the two daughters of Theban King Oedipus. Eteocles and Polyneices are the twin sons. Theban Queen Jocasta, as mother and wife to Oedipus, is mother and grandmother to Oedipus' four children.
Oedipus' misfortune was that he killed his own father, and slept with his mother.
Jocasta is Oedipus' mother and wife and queen of Thebes.