The Story of Oedipus: the King of Thebes (Complete) Greek Mythology - See U in History
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- Greek Mythology Stories: The Myth of Oedipus the King of Thebes (Oedipus Rex)
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The Sphinx: solve my riddle
Oedipus: Solves it
The Sphinx: COMPLETE OVERREACTION
Like a pretty light skinned woman on Instagram with booking in her bio
Dramatic AF!
You don’t show up in Greek tragedies by being bland and pedestrian.
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Right lol
Oracle: "You will marry Joe"
Oedipus: "Who's Joe?"
Oracle: "Joe Mama"
This needs to be the top comment
I literally choked on my coffee 😂. I wish I can like this comment more.
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Ba dum tsss
Oedipus: -who's Joe- Joe who?
Oracle : Joe Mama
"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it"
I'm gonna use that in my paper.
I heard this in destiny 2
yes master Oggway
Too bad Anakin didn't read Mythology...
Ooooohh oogway
Oedipus: answers the riddle
Sphinx: *yeets herself*
Oedipus: *solves the riddle*
Sphinx: "And I took that personally"
...And kids, that's how I met Our Mother...
Underrated comment.
Sounds like a communist propaganda
@@HimanshuSinghawesome huh? What are you on about?
@@Neku628 OUR 🧐
"SWEET OL MOTHER RUSSIA"
So his daughter is also his sister because they have the same mother. Now thats the twist
sWeEt HoMe AlAbAmA
Thanks for telling something I didn't want to know
I'd still hit it .
Andy Wilson r/cursedcomments
@@andywilson8698 😂😂😂😭🤦🏾♀️
Moral of the story; DO NOT go to a fortune teller.
Seriously
thats the moral of every ancient religion
Yeah, these oracles are more troublesome than the gods
I disagree it’s perfectly fine to do so because you will know and understand your life better .. the unpleasant truths are nessecary even if it’s painful
@@iamchannelll if his father didn't go to oracle then his father wouldn't expel him when he was just a baby, he will grow up and become a perfect prince and perfect heir to his father crown,
since he was a good kid who abandon his adoptive father kingdom just to make sure the propecy wouldn't happen and hurt his adoptive parents
So yeah... Don't go to the Fortune teller
If Oedipus father hadn't gone to ask for the prophecy in the first place, all this wouldn't have happened.
Moral of the story : don't go out searching for something you didn't lose in the first place.
don't search for something you didn't lose in the first place*...
not sure when or why people always use "loose" instead of "lose"
two whole separate meanings
Plus, I also feel like the oracle was in the story to express a moral. They had a choice to either keep the baby or get rid of it due to the possibility of Oedipus' father being killed. But you're right, every time they go to the oracle or prophecy, drama stirs.
nope this would still happend bcuz its Oedipu's destiny. and no matter how what you do to prevent it, it will happen that's the point of the whole story.
Yep you can’t run from fate .
Yep I agree.
I swear everything in Greek mythology has to do with shepherds
I think the Bible does that too, probably because sheep can easily be compared to the masses, and a shepherd can be considered a moral and societal leader.
Shepherds were probably the people that kept passing the stories down each generation...
Yes hector was raised by shepherds, romulus and his brothers were found by shepherds ... Etc etc ... Scholars believe it's the left over inspiration of giglameesh story where enikdu his counterpart and second main character was found and brought into the main story by shepherds ...
just like everything in Hungarian folk tales has a younger blond brother to do with it as well
Just a common job among the lower ranks of an old simple community, wth are u all on about!
Isn’t CZcams the best place to learn history? It has the maps, the music, the movies, the paintings, etc. And, the best of all, it has narrators who not only understand the subjects, but also are true lovers of history!
Your name and comment is gorgeous
Other platforms offer this too. YT merely hosts videos regardless of the creators and content. *rolls eyes*
Thank you for doing the story such justice. Not many people could tell the story so well.
Thank you for these videos.
thanks :)
@@SeeUinHistory can u somehow tell from where do you get so much information and extra knowledge?? I just wanna read more about Sphinx and her riddles
@@SeeUinHistory is it a real story?
@@i.b.7...718 You do understand that Greek mythology aren't stories based on real events and people, right? So yes, this is a REAL STORY in that this story actually exists not on actual events...
Yes I know this is a mythological story, but has anyone else realized that the whole of it could've been prevented had noone ever sought the oracle of delphi's "wisdom"?
i guess thats kinda the point as soon as you obtain knowledge that you shouldn't have it'll become your downfall
More of Apollo's fault really.
Not necessarily it’s still your future even if you don’t know it’s still going to happen one way or another
The point is that marrying his mother was his ultimate fate and knowing about that could not save him ... at least thats what my greek professors taught me while growing up there xd
Knowing your fate but still fighting against it while accepting the fact that you ll lose : ancient greeks's view about who's a tragic ( as in character of a tragedy the type of theatrical play ) hero ... Oedipus was one
He didn't know about his origin, and never wondered why his parents named him "swollen feet"?
TheAmazingLittleRose You didn’t get the point of that comment
Maybe he didnt know his name meant swollen feet
Huh
Moral to the story only sleep with someone your own age
Andrew Hall that wasnt his fault though.. any of us could have been fooled like he was.
She allegedly looked a lot younger than her age though
Queen jocasta had the necklace of harmonia which would make the wearer youthful and at the same time bring misfortune, so...
chocolate sundae Oh wow 😲 misfortune.. 😞
chocolate sundae why does no one say this?
If Oedipus had been raised the Prince and heir to the throne of Thebes as his parents intended before his father was told a Prophecy, none of this happens. The truth here is the Prophecy is self fulfilling. When we listen to them we act to avoid them which only leads to them becoming fact.
Maybe but perhaps the prophecy could have been fulfilled in a different story but same outcome. Even if Oedipus was raised by his original parents, his destiny could have been the same
@@kylasantos4081Considering this curse was put on Jocasta and Oedipus by the gods I'd say yeah. Laius did something bad and assaulted someone, then the gods gave this curse to wife and son. So I think this still would have been the outcome if they raised him.
Three things caused this: 1. Adoptive parents lying. 2. Oedipus thinking he can defeat faith and 3. The lie that thieves killed the King
"FATE" not faith
Secrets and Lies that what killed that him.
4. Oedipus father went to the Oracle in which he shouldn't have done in the first place
You mean 'Fate' ?!
Fate*
One of the most tragic stories ever...my goodness fate was cruel to him. Thanks for posting!!!
Apollo: "mortals thinking they can escape me"
This myth got old, the people that day didn’t know that fate can also be deceived by itself. It teaches people to accept their fate but never say how to against it. Avoiding is only delay things, in either condition you will eventually face it. Most of what happen has a link somewhere. If that link break or get cut off because people totally forget it, it can’t go to where it is.
If you're told you're going to marry you mom then marry a younger woman.
what if that younger woman was your mum resurrected in another body?
That would've made to much sense.
Exactly he wasnt smart enough
Mrtfarrugia // haha
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The Sphinx : (gives a riddle)
Oedipus : (answers it correctly.)
The Sphinx : *It wasn't supposed to be like this!*
She was a modern day Karen
I love Greek myths. They have so much drama and action. Especially this son.
The sphinx really based life and death on a basic ass cereal box riddle...?
And it was the cereal box that got the riddle from the sphinx.
Gee, u make it sound as if a cereal box came BEFORE the Greek Myth.
@@XyzXyz-mm9vq thats why the riddle is challenging to the ancient greeks
I would pay to watch a documentary about an ancient cereal box that got sent back in time from a distant future.
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to improve the future send gorilla munch
To Doom it send raisin brand
There is a fascinating back story behind the curse to the Oedipus family. Oedipus's father Laius had violated a young man whom he had been hired to protect and educate,. The god Apollo punished Laius by cursing his wife and son by this terrible prophecy.
may I know what story this is?
What did he do to the young man? Clapped his cheeks or talked ill of the guys family?
You can't be going saying "violated" it's meaning has changed in this era.
The god Apollo is a sick man the duck did the son do to dererve such a fate.
@@mohammadhosseini6675That's the point, ancient Greek myths portrayed the Olympian gods as petty jerks b/c they were a reflection of humanity itself. It's the belief that nothing and no one, not even the gods, is perfect.
There are multiple versions of the story.
In one he abducts the young man, who later commits suicide, and in another he is abducted by Zeus, and Laius is blamed for his disappearance.
Greek methology has never been about justice, characters suffer and are punished severely for things they have no power over
U dumb
I'm from Greece and trust me I know much more things about the Greek mythology
Not mythology but methology lol. Next they'll be telling tales of Marijuahnus and Heroincules.
I might be late here, but i think the reason why many greek story don't always show justices is because to teach people to believe something good in themselves, and don't believe something bad if we don't want it happens.
@@ftw_sarras2490 You're a dolt. What has Oedipus done to deserve what he befell him. Despite his righteous nature, he still met great tragedy. I know life can be unjust but you must at least sympathise with what happened to him. You're the dumb one, you lack critical thinking
And so he was the inventor of the word: 'Motherf*cker'.
No, it was me.
@@jordanr6639 stop lying
Yep
*Laius: Oedipus shall be killed.*
**20-or-so years later**
*Oedipus:* **pulls out UNO Reverse card**
Oedipus is smart enough to beat the Sphynx, but not smart enough to not marry older women.
Myrna Caraig
It is not about being smart. Destiny will come through regardless of what one does to avoid it. That is the point
Being clever and being wise are two different forms of intelligence
Like he could’ve just not married anyone and that’s half of the problems done
That his biological mother. This isn't about how smart are you to pick your choices in life. It's how fate always find way to fulfill the prophecy.
Based
The sad thing is that the family tragedy does not end with Oedipus but it continues with the death of his daughter by Creon uncle of Oedipus who eventually suicided after his son killed himself because he was in love with the daughter of Oedipus
What?
@@sormisthapatra2388 Yep
God it never ends!
Antigone.
@@sormisthapatra2388 that in a nutshell. I believe Oedipus’ 2 sons waged war to control Corinth and wind up killing each other. Antigone went against her uncle’s’ decree that no funeral rites be given (by itself that was a crime against the gods) and was punished by being buried alive in a mausoleum. Creon’s son was in love with her and arrived too late to free her because she committed suicide. He then killed himself in front of Creon and only then Creon recognize the errors of his ways.
All Oedipus had to do was keep his mouth shut and stop digging and he would have lived a happy and oblivious life.
So for Oedipus, "Ignorance is bliss."
@Timothy Toliver I mean, ya, good for him for keeping his word but he plunged out his eyes, (something he didn't have to do) the dude went a bit extreme. But, ya, that too I guess.
@@macvena i was just thinking that
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But ya know...it wouldn't have stopped the plague
This has to be the Saddest story in all Greek mythology. Its even sadder than Medusa's
Jason and the Argonauts: Medea (Jason's wife) murders their sons to spite him, he loses his kingdom and is crushed by his own boat (the Argo) as an old man.
Cicada was a man who fell in love with a Muse. The Muse begged Zeus (her father) to make Cicada immortal, Zeus did but didn't give Cicada eternal youth. Cicada aged into a immobile husk, forced to watch his Muse wife cheat on him constantly because she didn't want to be with him anymore. Finally she turned him into a bug (a cicada) so he could at least shed his form and move around and not be her problem.
Artemis was tricked into killing the only man she ever loved (Orion the hunter) by her brother Apollo in an archery contest.
There's plenty more, not saying Oedipus isn't a sad story, but there's plenty of competition. Not just Medusa's.
@@redrave404
so then Apollo totally SUCKS
@@noorbohamad5796 It's the Greek pantheon, all the gods are awful to varying degrees.
Sphinx: "Decipher me or I'll devour you"
Oedipus: "HUMAN"
Sphinx: *Emotional Damage*
Now I know what gave rise to Oedipus and Jocasta complex (for those who don't know Oedipus complex is a psychological concept explaining the feelings of a boy towards his mother and Jocasta is feelings of a mother towards his boy )
Centuries have gone by. The story is still so tragic, poor Antigone her story is even more painful.
Sophocles continues the tragedies with Antigone.
Jocasta: Oedipus dear!
Oedipus: Coming soon, mother!
Jocasta: So soon?
NOOO
Oh my god! Stop right there 🤢
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Oedipus be like so that's why my adopted parents named me swollen feet.
In my country there is a popular book called 'the gods are not to be blamed' that tells this exact story. It was written by a well known author who wrote it as an original story of his.
Lol
That story was an adaptation of this.
This was never one of my favorite Greek stories but the way you told it was very compelling!
When I have read that part of Mythology, I thought those stuff were just someone's fiction work🙈🙉
I never cared much for this story until now. beautifully done!!
The fates played a cruel joke on Oedipus.
Oedipus was given three chances to forsake his request, he was warned of the terrible knowledge and its impact on everything yet he ignored. One thing to learn: never seek knowledge that would bring harm and learn how to let go. Some things are better if kept a secret.
Also this reminds me of people who go to an extreme persuing a cause believing blindly its right. Only to be confronted by the end that they have turned into a monster and the thing that they dreaded the most when they persue it.
Kids today are so lucky to have CZcams. How many papers have been written just by watching videos on here. Meanwhile I had to go to my local library.
The anonymous lord he killed was his father in disguise, wow what a plot twist...
Old World Disorder ikr?!
The meaning get once I hear the whole thing is nothing like the “oedipus complex”. Meaning: if you try to run from fate and your problems you will end up crashing headlong into it.
Dread it, Run from it, Destiny arrives all the same - Thanos, the Mad Titan.
@@messianic_scam its not like the hellenic republic became an outstanding country from its mythology alone.
Your rendition gives life to the story. Awesome way of telling a story.
The original riddle of the Sphinx was... what goes on four legs then two legs then three...and the further it goes the weaker it be? The answer was Man!
This was beautiful, and very well put together! Thank you for a awesome video!!! Blessings, Fran
I love this. Listening to this helps me learn about Greek mythology and I gotten an A+ thanks to your narration and knowledge.
Very twisted story!! Poor Oedipus, trying to escape his future makes him actually fall right into its trap. Wonder why the fates hated him so much??
he was cursed by his father's mistake
Karma is cruel.
The fates decided humans had become too reliant on the Oracles and decided they needed to learn that sometimes the truth is to be left undisturbed. Oedipus could’ve Hakuna Matata’d his way through life as a King, but his refusal to accept not knowing was his downfall.
I love your story telling of mythologies keep it up love your videos 👍
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9:25 Oedipus unknowingly addresses himself.
Absolutely 😀
One of the most intriguing tales from Greek mythology
I remember learning this in Secondary school aged 13. These tales always stay lodged in the brain, along with the Celtic mythologies
Recommend some Celtic mythologies
What I’ve learned from Greek Mythology. Don’t try changing fate. When you do that’s when the prophecy comes true.
I took my mom to see this play talk about it awkward ride home barely got a good night kiss
Lol
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I like the narration. 👍👌
Everything is crystal clear.. One of most lucid descriptions I have ever seen on Oedipus the King 👑
this used to be the story we have to roleplay back in college.. my oh my.. I was asked to be the Sphinx.. I was sooo honored, eventho I know I will die in the end
Ninny Nina Umm hiyah dere ninny nina the sphinx! 😂
Is your name Karen?
Love your videos keep it up dude
thank you
THE BEST EXPLANATION!!! THIS REALLY HELPED ME
The Sphinx: solve this riddle or I will eat you
Oedipus: Solves the riddle
Sphinx: THROWS SELF OFF CLIFF
Mood
Moral of the story: Don’t talk to the Oracle
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Men, the moral of the story is "take no cougars".
Sphinx: Decipher me or I'll devour you
Me: That doesn't even rhyme
Decipher me or I'll devour thee
It rhymes in ancient Greek tho
That’s where the phrase “Oedipus complex” come from!🤔
Best explanation available on youtube
No matter what, fate seems to always catch up upon you
I havee read about Oedipus many times but this by far is the best narration which I listened and watched from beginning to end.
But the prophecy only happened because they tried to prevent it in the first place. Their actions of trying to change the future are actually what caused it.
Oof in other words
It s more like it was destined for them to try and prevent the profecy and by that it ll cause it because nobody can change the future, u may think that u are but actually ur just walking the same way towards ur destiny
It was deemed to happen one way or the other ...
@@siddarth3955 Exactly the only thing they could change would be the actions in between but the ending stays the same
@@thatoneguy_0218 I think in oedipus's case his actions were well but no matter what, even if he made biggest sacrifice in the universe still this particular ending was deemed to be a stigma on him ...
ThatOneGuy _02 Honestly it was gonna happen either ways
This was awesome. I WANT MOORREEE!!!!!
I already knew this myth since in Italy we study a lot of greek and latin literature, simplified, since middle school books. But this work was dope and astonishing, good job
THE GROSSEST PLOT TWIST EVER!
Like most greek tales
Another tragic Greek story! Thank you. I love Mythology 🥲🤣.
"Husband of mine" no sis "son of mine"
The Sphinx: solve my riddle
Oedipus: Solves it
The Sphinx: Guess I'll die!
OK now that's messed up and a bit confusing. So his "children " are his siblings? I am confused.
i am confusion ...
Have you noticed these stories, all of whom were conceived by kings and Gods and than tossed to the side, grew up to be beautiful, strong, handsome, and righteous.
Most of them ended with a tragedy.
Absolutely love your channel! Thank you for another great, informative video!! 😊😊😊😊
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The only detailed video about king Oedipus!
Thank you
This is an amazing video .....helped me alot. Thank you for your narration 🙏🏾
Because of this explanation I got the highest mark in exam.Thank u to the one whoever have explained this story in such a good detail.❤
"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it" ->Master Oogway
Thank you for posting this helped alot
I've heard and read this myth many times, but for some reason in this narration I cried when Antoine him by his side.
It’s weird to me that he literally murdered a guy on the road and never thought to himself that he might’ve murdered the king.
What if Oedipus just settled with the Sphinx insted of his Mother.
Sphinx was thicc tho
Sphinx is half lion with wings but this is Greek mythology so it is a possibility
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Amazing video! Please also make the sequel to this story: “7 Against Thebes”
This video just helped me finish an important assignment so thank you. Learned more here in this short video than reading in class lol.
This was an ancient version of an epsiode of Young and The Restless...
One often fulfills his destiny on the road to avoid it.
Papa Waffles True
True but this was word for word posted earlier
Amazing! Learned so much!
Thank you so much for this. This has helped me with an assignment.
Despite the term's origin, you have to admit, Oedipus never wanted to marry his mother of sort. He was a capable king and he did ran away because he did not want to do that with his parents, he ran because of love for them. Though he is too gullible and too impulsive for the prophecies that he had to accuse his own brother-in-law, whom was loyal to him, leading to the deaths of both his adoptive parents and his biological. But even in shame he did not shied away from responsibility, even if it took mutilating himself. He at least had his daughter accompany him until the end of his life.
The sphinx is basically some lady sapiophile with a messed up history
Great video, thank you!
Thanks for explaining in this way 🙏
Holy shit that was a tragic story, I cried I'm not lying
poor guy.. especially the kind of hardship and the length he had gone through to evade the prophecy. wondering if had the king educate, treat and rise him right, will the prophecy still be fulfilled?
what if you don't try to avoid the prophecy or never learn about it in the first place?
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Yet apparently we never learned the lesson. Look at the world today say we aren't self fulfilling the prophecies of the alleged holy books ... and those religious devotes actually do everything in their power to see it fullfilled be that by not acting but allowing things to happen, helping in purpose to have the prophecy fullfilled, or trying to restrict humanity in order to allegedly avoid it which bacfires as in the story we just heard ...
We just seem to be doomed to repeat stupidity. So obsessed with reaching heaven we trample everything in our path knowing this prophecies are meant to annihilate the world ...
Sad but there you have it. It's always the believers the screw things up
I don't think coz once he knew of the prophecy he distanced himself from his adopted parents fearing it. Had he been brought up properly by his birth parents, that prophecy would have remained unfulfilled since he was an intelligent n nice guy
This is clear in narration.. Thank you
Very helpful. Great work
I am here because of an anime I watched, crazy
Zankyu no terror}?