Oedipus the king

Oedipus the king is about a king name Oedipus who move from his home in Corinth  to a place called Thebes because  it was said that he was going to marry and bed his mother and kill his father. So to prevent this he left Corinth and end up and Thebes.  On his journey to Thebes he came across some men who tried to run him off the road so he killed all of them except one. When he got to Thebes there was a lot of problem. One major problem was the sphinx, a monster with the body of a lion, wing, and the head and torso of a woman. After their king died the sphinx wouldn’t let anyone in or out the city unless someone could answer her riddle. “What can walk on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?” those who couldn’t answer were killed and eaten. Oedipus came along and provided the answer (A human being), and saved the city. The sphinx committed suicide and sense there was a king the citizens named Oedipus the king of Thebes. Then he married the queen and had four children. Then One day things came crashing down for him when the citizens need help because they were ill and poor and the only way to stop the famish and the illnesses  was if they found the man who killed there king/ruler king laius. So Oedipus send his brother in law Creon to the gods to find some answers, it was answers he wanted in answers he got. To make a long story short Oedipus found out he was adopted he was giving to his adopted parents by a shepherd because a man gave him to the shepherd when he was little because his mother didn’t want him, because it was said that he was going to kill his father and marry and bed his mother. So when he was just days old she gave him to a messenger to be killed, but the messenger couldn’t kill him so he gave him to the shepherd thinking he would take him far away. So to make a long story short out the men he killed on his way to Thebes one of them was king Laius who was also his long lost father and the husband of Oedipus wife/queen who he had four kids with. So Oedipus queen was his wife and his mother. So when he found this out his wife/mom killed herself and Oedipus stabbed his eyes out and demands to be killed or thrown out of Thebes forever.