Oedipus Rex tells the tragic story of King Oedipus of Thebes who unknowingly fulfills a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. As a plague ravages Thebes, it is discovered that Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx many years ago and married Queen Jocasta, not realizing she was his mother. When the truth is revealed, Jocasta hangs herself and Oedipus blinds himself with her pins. He is then exiled from Thebes as a blind and broken man. Antigone stays by his side until his
