3. Jocasta told Oedipus that his “father” was dead but he wanted to hear it from the messenger himself, he died from illness and old age according to the messenger
• Jocasta predicted it a long time ago but Oedipus was misguided by his fears and Jocasta said that he shouldn’t keep on filling up his heart with all these things.
• Jocasta says that it is true that in their dreams a lot of men have slept with their own mothers, but someone who ignores all this bears life more easily.
• Oedipus is still scared that he is going to marry his mother since she is still alive and does not want to return home.
• Loxias a common name for Apollo
• The messenger told Oedipus that Polybus was not his father no more than him. The messenger gave Oedipus to Polybus as a gift.
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• The Messenger found Oedipus when he was looking after a flock of sheep when the messenger found Oedipus his ankles had been pierced and tied together
• The name Oedipus can be constructed to mean either “swollen feet” or knowledge of one’s feet.” Both terms evoke a strongly ironic sense of how Oedipus, for all his fame as a man of knowledge, is ignorant about his origin.
• Jocasta doesn’t want Oedipus to find out who he really is. Oedipus thinks that it is because if he was born from a shameful mother whose family for three generations have been slaves that she will lose her lineage.
• Oedipus sees himself as a child of fortune and her mother is generous and he has siblings.
• The Chorus thinks that Oedipus’s father is Pan, Apollo, Cyllene’s royal king, Bacchanalian