Oedipus the King Character Map
By Jose Auly
Oedipus
The biological son of Laius and Jocasta,the adopted son of Polybus and Merope. He later married Jocasta.Oedipus is the king of Thebes.Oedipus killed his father, married his mother and solved the riddle of the Sphinx.
Jocasta
Jocasta is the queen of the Thebes. She is also Oedipus' mother.But Oedipus doesn't know she is her mother.
Thebes
Thebes is the place where Jocasta and Oedipus lived and were Queen and King.
King Polybus
King Polybus is giving the baby to the servant so that he can take him far from the King and kill him because the baby is adopted. But the servant doesn't have the heart to kill the baby. So he decided to give the baby to a man who gives it the childless King and Queen of Corinth.
Corinth
Here is the place or setting where the King and Queen of childless lived.
Queen Merope
Queen Merope is the woman that gets to keep the children that have no family. This Queen is the one that kept the baby that the servant got from the other guy.
Sphinx
sphinx is a monster with the head of a woman and the body of a lion who kills all who fail when someone wants to solve the riddle and the only one who can solve the riddle is Oedipus.
Antigone & Ismene
Antigone & Ismene are the two daughters of Oedipus and Jocasta.They had them when they got married but they also had two sons.
Eteocles and Polynices
Eteocles and Polynices are the two sons of Oedipus and Jocasta.
Laius
Laius is the grandson of cadmus. Laius has a son and he is predicting that his son is going to get killed at Oracle of Apollo. The son from Laius is the same baby that Jocasta wants to give to the servant so that he could kill him.
Cadmus
Here is Cadmus the grandfather of Cadmus.
Oracle of Apollo
Oracle of Apollo is the place were the baby was going to get killed by the servant but he felt bad and didn't kill him.
Sophocles
Sophocles was the guy that wrote this story or the play.
Creon
Creon is Oedipus' brother-in-law. Oedipus sent him to the Oracle of Apollo to ask how to lift this blight.