Œdipus, a mythological king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta, and fated to kill his father and marry his mother; unwittingly slew his father in a quarrel; for answering the riddle of the Sphinx (q.v.) was made king in his stead, and wedded his widow, by whom he became the father of four children; on discovery of the incest Jocasta hanged herself, and Œdipus went mad and put out his eyes.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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