Oedipus The King Character Map
-Jackie Balbastro
Sophocles
Writer of the epic "Oedipus the king."
Laius
Oedipus' birth father. He receives a prediction his son will kill him, so he and his wife try to have the baby killed. However with fate the grown Oedipus kills King Laius.
Jocasta
Wife to both Laius and her unknown son Oedipus. She gives up her child to spare the life of her husband, only to marry him years later and to have children of their own.
Corinth
Kingdom of King Polybus and Queen Merope.
King Polybus & Queen Merope
Adoptive parents of Oedipus.
Creon
Brother of Jocasta, sent to the Oracle of Apollo.
Antigone & Ismene
Daughters of Oedipus and Jocasta.
Eteocles & Polynices
Sons of Oedipus and Jocasta.
Sphinx
A beast with wings, a head of a woman and a lion body, she kills all who cannot solve her riddle. When Oedipus solves the riddle she kills herself.
Oracle of Apollo
People come to this oracle for their future. This oracle makes a prediction for Laius and his family. Through trying to avoid the oracles predictions they instead make everything come true.
Oedipus
The son of Laius and Jocasta, he is given up to be killed but instead he's given toadoptifve parents King Polybus and Queen Merope. The Oracle of Apollo predicts he'll kill his father and marry his mother. In fact as a reward for defeating the sphinx he marries Jocasta and actually killed his father on the way to Thebes. He has four children with his wife Jocasta.
Thebes
The kingdom city of the late Laius and the now kingdom of Oedipus and his wife Jocasta.