He was adopted by Merope and Polybus, and is later asked to become king of Corinth.
This character was once abandoned at Cithaeron, and in one play this character tries to torture a shepherd for information. He was adopted by Merope and Polybus, and is later asked to become king of Corinth. Creon returns from Delphi to tell this character how to end a plague, and Tiresias later refuses to tell him the murderer of King Laius. At the end of one work in which he appears, he realizes that he has committed incest with his mother Jocasta. For 10 points, name this character from Greek tragedy who appears in plays by Sophocles at Colonus and as the King.
This character was once abandoned at Cithaeron, and in one play this character tries to torture a shepherd for information.
Oedipus