Before this play begins, the title character flees from King Polybus and Qu
Before this play begins, the title character flees from King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth and goes to Thebes, where he solves the riddle of the Sphinx. This play's protagonist shuns Creon's advice and stabs out his eyes with pins from (*) Jocasta's clothes after he learns he has fulfilled an oracle's prophecy that declared he would sleep with his mother and kill his father. For 10 points, name this play by Sophocles.
Before this play begins, the title character flees from King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth and goes to Thebes, where he solves the riddle of the Sphinx.
Oedipus Rex (or Oedipus the King; prompt on "Oedipus")