At the road called ' Cleft Way ,' he met Laius, who was going to Delphi to consult the oracle because he had received omens indicating that his son might return to kill him.

The Messenger received Oedipus from one of Laius ’ servants and then gave him to Polybus.

Oedipus kills King Laius in a dispute over which of them has the right of way, thereby fulfilling the prophecy of the oracle Loxias that Oedipus is destined to murder his own father.

Laius ' tragic son, crossing his father's path, killed him and fulfilled the oracle spoken of old at Pytho.

Laius, a previous king of Thebes, had given the rule to Creon while he went to consult the oracle at Delphi.

The tale goes that one day her husband, King Laius of Thebes, consulted an oracle while she was heavily pregnant with Oedipus.

The oracle told Laius that the child was destined to kill his father and sleep with his mother.

His parents, Laius and Jocasta, try to forestall the oracle by sending their son away to be killed, but he is actually raised by Polybus and his wife, Merope, the rulers of another kingdom.

However, rather than leave the child to die of exposure, as Laius intended, the sympathetic servant passed the baby onto a shepherd from Corinth and then to another shepherd.

Fearing the prophecy, Laius pierces Oedipus ' feet and leaves him out to die, but a herdsman finds him and takes him away from Thebes.

When word came of Laius's death, Creon offered the throne of Thebes as well as the hand of his sister ( and Laius ' widow ) Jocasta, to anyone who could free the city from the Sphinx.

Hence, in an attempt to evade the prophecy, King Laius decided that the child must be brought up to the mountain separating the city of Thebes from Corinth.

King Laius moves to strike the insolent youth with his sceptre, but Oedipus throws him down from the chariot and kills him.

Fearing the prophecy, Laius pierces newborn Oedipus ' feet and leaves him out to die, but a herdsman finds him and takes him away from Thebes.

The title means " the rose tribe " in Japanese, hinted from King Laius ' homosexual episodes in Greek mythology.

The magazine was named Barazoku ( The Rose Tribe ) by Ito since the flower rose had been a prominent symbol of male homosexuality in Japan, derived from Greek myth of the King Laius who have affairs with boys under rose trees.

After having been married some time without children, Laius consulted the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.

Oedipus kills King Laius in a dispute over which of them has the right of way, thereby fulfilling the prophecy that Oedipus is destined to murder his own father.

The most striking lines, however, state that in this play Oedipus was blinded by Laius ' attendants, and that this happened before his identity as Laius ' son had been discovered, therefore marking important differences with the Sophoclean treatment of the myth, which is now regarded as the ' standard ' version.

Some Thebans, wishing to see the line of Cadmus continue, smuggled Laius out of the city before their attack, in which they killed Lycus and took the throne.

The Suda gives the titles of twenty tragedies, of which a very few fragments have been preserved: Aeolus, Allies ( Symmakhoi ), Andromeda, Chrysippus, Daughters of Aeolus, Daughters of Pelops, Elephenor, Herakles, Hippolytus, Kassandreis, Laius, Marathonians, Menedemus, Nauplius, Oedipus ( two versions ), Orphan ( Orphanos ), Pentheus, Suppliants ( Hiketai ), Telegonus, and the Wanderer ( Aletes ).

Instead, Laius ran away with him to Thebes and raped him, a crime for which he, his city, and his family were later punished by the gods.

Another example is the Greek legend of Oedipus, wherein Laius king of Thebes is told by the Delphic Oracle that if he and his wife had a son, he would eventually kill his own father and marry his own mother.

In Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex, while on the road to Thebes, Oedipus meets King Laius of Thebes who is unknown to him as his biological father.

In Sophocles ' Oedipus the King, while on the road to Thebes, Oedipus meets King Laius of Thebes who is unknown to him as his biological father.

The Oracle prophesied that any son born to Laius would kill him.

In a search for the identity of the killer, Oedipus followed Creon's suggestion and sent for Tiresias, who warned him not to seek Laius ' killer.

Jocasta, finally realizing that he was her son, begged him to stop his search for Laius ' murderer.

Laius hears of a prophecy that his son will kill him.

In Chrysippus, Euripides develops backstory on the curse: Laius ' " sin " was to have kidnapped Chrysippus, Pelops ' son, in order to violate him, and this caused the gods ' revenge on all his family-boy-loving having been so far an exclusive of the gods themselves, unknown to mortals.

According to some sources, mostly belonging to the Christian era, Laius abducted and raped the king's son, Chrysippus, and carried him off to Thebes while teaching him how to drive a chariot, or as Hyginus records it, during the Nemean games.

Being angered, Laius either rolled a chariot wheel over his foot or hit him with his whip, and Oedipus killed Laius and all but one of his attendants, who claims it was a gang of men.

They then question him about his identity, and are horrified to learn that he is the son of Laius.

When Apollo's word came back, he might still have left the murder of Laius uninvestigated ; but piety and justice required him to act.

Warned that his child would one day kill him, Laius abandoned his newborn son Oedipus to die, but Oedipus was found and raised by others, and thus in ignorance of his true origins.

When Creon returned, Oedipus heard that the murderer of the former King Laius must be found and either be killed or exiled.

Oedipus became nervous as he realized that he may have murdered Laius and so brought about the plague.

In the most well-known version of the myth, Laius wished to thwart a prophecy saying that his child would grow up to murder his father and marry his mother.

As prophesied, Oedipus crosses paths with Laius and this leads to a fight where Oedipus slays Laius and most of his guards.

One night, however, Laius was drunk and fathered Oedipus with her.

In Oedipus the King, Creon is a brother of queen Jocasta, the wife of King Laius as well as Oedipus.

She was the wife of Laius, wife and mother of Oedipus by Laius, and both mother and grandmother of Antigone, Eteocles, Polynices and Ismene by Oedipus.

Laius hears a prophecy that his son will kill him and marry his wife.

Soon thereafter, Laius ' wife Jocasta gave birth to a baby boy.