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Nothing is what the Delphic oracle tells Laius in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Laius does not consult the Delphic oracle. He gets his disturbing prophecy from an unnamed prophet, possibly Teiresias of Thebes. He is on his way to consult the Pythia at Delphi when he is murdered at the Delphi-Daulia crossroads in Phocis.
An oracle came from Delphi warning him not to have a son because that son was fated to kill his own father. Laius did not heed this warning.
There was a famine, and Oedipus went to an oracle who said that the only way it would be over was if he found out who killed Laius.
The oracle told Queen Jocasta and King Laius of Thebes while she was heavily pregnant with Oedipus, that the child was destined to kill his father.
Because the oracle told them that their son Ödipus would kill his father (i.e. Laius) and then marry his wife (Jocasta, Oedipus' mother)
Nothing is what the Delphic oracle tells Laius in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Laius does not consult the Delphic oracle. He gets his disturbing prophecy from an unnamed prophet, possibly Teiresias of Thebes. He is on his way to consult the Pythia at Delphi when he is murdered at the Delphi-Daulia crossroads in Phocis.
An oracle came from Delphi warning him not to have a son because that son was fated to kill his own father. Laius did not heed this warning.
A oracle predicted that thier son would kill Laius his father and marry Iocaste his mother.
There was a famine, and Oedipus went to an oracle who said that the only way it would be over was if he found out who killed Laius.
The oracle told Queen Jocasta and King Laius of Thebes while she was heavily pregnant with Oedipus, that the child was destined to kill his father.
Because the oracle told them that their son Ödipus would kill his father (i.e. Laius) and then marry his wife (Jocasta, Oedipus' mother)
This is definitely a school question. Laius, the old king before Oedipus took the throne in Sophocles' tragedy, was told by the oracle that . . . one should do one's own work. For those who really need to/want to know, Oedipus killed Laius. And Laius was his father. Reverse engineer the prophecy.
Creon returns with a message from the oracle: the plague will end when the murderer of Laius, former king of Thebes, is caught and expelled; the murderer is within the city.
The plague would be lifted when the murderer of old king Laius was found.
Theban King Laius is the royal predecessor of Theban King Oedipus in 'Oedipus Rex'. But neither one of them expects that to be the case. Laius leaves his hometown of Thebes, for a trip to consult with the Delphic Oracle. Oedipus leaves what he thinks is his hometown of Corinth, to do likewise.Understandably, Oedipus doesn't like what the Oracle says. So he doesn't go back home. Instead, he heads towards a crossroads between Delphi and Thebes. That's at the same time that Laius leaves Thebes for the crossroads, and Delphi. The two paths meet. There's a street brawl over right of way. Laius ends up dead.Oedipus goes on to claim Laius' job, residence, and wife. But there's a problem. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Oedipus is Laius' long lost son.
That the plague at Thebes is occurring because the murderer of Laius lives unpunished.
That Laius is killed by robbers in theDelphi-Daulia intersection and on the way to consulting the Delphic oracle are what Jocasta tells Oedipus about Laius' death in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta says that Laius, her first husband and Oedipus' royal predecessor, is killed far away from home. He leaves in the company of five escort party members, of whom only one survives a murderous attack by robbers. Laius organizes the trip because he seeks the renowed insights of the Pythia, Apollo the sun god's oracle in Delphi.