He doesn’t listen, and an eyewitness, the Herdsman who rescued him when he was an infant, confirms that he was Laius and Jocasta’s child, and that Oedipus killed Laius.A Servant reports the ...

Family Drama: From Oedipus to Ozu. Episode 2 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Searching for insights into the nature of family. Aired 02/11/2024 | Expires 02/02/2027 ...

Father’s Day has just passed us by. Late being better than never, here is a belated salute to Father’s Day as celebrated by our old buddy Oedipus in Greek mythology land. If you think your family ...

Laius is warned that his son will one day kill him and marry his wife. In fear , he abandons baby Oedipus to die—only for the prophecy to be tragically fulfilled.

But Oedipus laughs off his predictions: that he will kill his father and become his mother’s lover and that Creon will be leader. “You see and you wish you were blind,” forewarns the fortune ...

Oedipus the King This ... Done with restraint, physical action is confined mainly to the assassination of Laius and a recap. Nor is the translation sonorously heavy but retains a dignified poetry.

Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre review: ... Icke provides a devastating speech for Manville’s Jocasta about her first husband Laius that makes sense of the tragedy’s troubling timeline.