<P> Years later, to end a plague on Thebes, Oedipus searched to find who had killed Laius, and discovered that he himself was responsible . Jocasta, upon realizing that she had married both her own son, and her husband's murderer, hanged herself . Oedipus then seized two pins from her dress and blinded himself with them . </P> <P> The legend of Oedipus has been retold in many versions, and was used by Sigmund Freud to name and give mythic precedent to the Oedipus complex . </P> <P> Variations on the legend of Oedipus are mentioned in fragments by several ancient Greek poets including Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus and Euripides . However, the most popular version of the legend comes from the set of Theban plays by Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone . </P> <P> Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes . Having been childless for some time, Laius consulted the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi . The Oracle prophesied that any son born to Laius would kill him . In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment, when Jocasta indeed bore a son, Laius had his ankles pierced and tethered together so that he could not crawl; Jocasta then gave the boy to a servant to abandon ("expose") on the nearby mountain . However, rather than leave the child to die of exposure, as Laius intended, the servant passed the baby on to a shepherd from Corinth and who then gave the child to another shepherd . </P>

Who killed his father and married his mother