Hide thy self and hide thy wife. This is what King Laius was thinking when he found out about the prophecy, which was that his son is going to kill him and marry is wife. “Oedipus the King,” a play by Sophocles, is a tragedy taking place at around 430 B.C.. Oedipus, the main character in this story, is the King of Thebes. When he was younger, his parents, King Laius and Jocasta, pinned his feet together (Oedipus meaning “swollen-foot”), and sent him away to his death but he was given to King Polybus in Corinth, where he later finds out what the prophecy is (Sophocles vi). “Know Thyself” is an important statement when it comes to this story because Oedipus’s central problem is that he does not know himself.
Oedipus, knowing the prophecy, tries
Oedipus, knowing the prophecy, tries