Fate 1: Oedipus knows that Thebes has a fate, and sends Kreon to Apollo to find out what this fate is and how to make Thebes healthy again.
Fate 2: Unwillingly, Teirasias reveals Oedipus' fate--that he is to kill his own father and sleep with his own mother. Oedipus refuses to believe this fate, calls Teirasias a liar, and orders him to leave.
Fate 3: Iokaste tells the story of how her son was supposed to kill his father and sleep with his mother, but, she says, this never happened. Therefore, she claims that Oedipus should not believe in fate.
Fate 4: When a drunk person called him a bastard son and people refused to speak about it, Oedipus went to the Delphi to find out what they meant, and to ask what his fate and destiny was. However
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