Exposure of Infant Oedipus
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
appointed tomb · boy · child · cradle · do away with it · exposure of Oedipus · pinned ankles
spoken of as
1 expressionExposure of the infant Oedipus1 mention
Phoenissae (Greek)
O snow-capped Cithaeron, dear to Artemis, holy vale of leaves, crowded with wild animals, would that you had never reared the one exposed to die, Oedipus, Jocasta’s child, when as a baby he was cast forth from his home, marked with a golden brooch;
in the texts
Phoenissae
The exposure of the infant Oedipus on Cithaeron, ordered by Laius in an attempt to evade the oracle.
O snow-capped Cithaeron, dear to Artemis, holy vale of leaves, crowded with wild animals, would that you had never reared the one exposed to die, Oedipus, Jocasta’s child, when as a baby he was cast forth from his home, marked with a golden brooch;
and afterwards, conscious of his sin and of the god’s warning, he gave the child to shepherds to expose in Hera’s meadow and the crag of Cithaeron, after piercing his ankles with iron spikes;
Oedipus Tyrannus
The attempted destruction of the infant Oedipus on Cithaeron after his ankles were pinned, frustrated when the servant pitied him and gave him to the Corinthian messenger.
So much so that from that fortune you were called by that name which you still bear.
I freed you when you had your ankles pinned together.
Oedipus: