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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.
Answered by jill d #170087 on 12/26/2014 3:28 PM. Answered by jill d #170087. In his influential Poetics, Aristotle sets guidelines for the form of tragedy using Oedipus the King as his ideal model. Tragedy is usually concerned with a person of great stature, a king or nobleman, who falls because of hubris, or pride.