In patients with swollen ankles high blood pressure is often seen as a causative agent. Steroids and Antidepressants are also seen as causes of Swollen Ankles. These medicines widen the small blood vessels resulting in leakage of fluids from vessels to the tissues.
When the truth was discovered, his wife-mother hanged herself, and Oedipus gouged out his own eyes. They had four children together. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles 's tragedy Oedipus the King, which was followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone.
In the books before Antigone, Sophocles explains the story of how Oedipus kills his father, Laius, the king of Thebes, and marries his mother, Jocasta. Jocasta has a brother, â¦Creon, who marries a Eurydice. Jocasta and Oedipus have two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and two daughters, Ismene and Antigone.