Who Is Jocasta Told Oedipus The King

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