Dans la tragédie de Sophocle, Œdipe, qui est persuadé que ses parents adoptifs sont ses vrais parents, apprend la malédiction de l'oracle selon laquelle il tuera son père et épousera sa mère, ce qui arriva.
In Sophocles' tragedy, Oedipus is convinced that his adoptive parents are his real parents and learns of an oracle's curse that he will kill his father and marry his mother. That is what happens.