What is Oedipus?
[[File:Oedipe enfant.JPG|thumb|200px|The Child Oedipus Revived by the Shepherd Phorbas by Antoine-Denis Chaudet]] '''Oedipus''' is a [[myth]]ical or [[fiction]]al [[king]] in [[Greek mythology]]. He is adopted as a baby. Without knowing who they are, he [[marriage|marries]] his biological [[mother]], Then they have a baby, But before this, he [[kill]]s his biological father. The [[psychologist]] [[Sigmund Freud]] had a theory and he called it the [[Oedipus complex]], after this [[story]]. ''Oedipus Tyranos'', or Oedipus the King, is a well-known [[tragedy]] by [[Sophocles]]. Oedipus has 4 children, Antigone, Polynices, Ismene and Eteocles. All of these are by his mother Jocasta. Later, they find out they are related to each other. Jocasta hangs herself and Oedipus rips out his eyes in disgust. {{Europe-stub}} [[Category:Incest in fiction]] [[Category:People in Greek mythology]]