Oedipus (Euripides) and hence the fragment describing the blinding refers to Oedipus as the son of Polybus. The blind Oedipus has a scene with Jocasta and possibly Periboea in which the fact that his biological parents are Laius and Jocasta is revealed. Menoetes, another servant of Laius who had originally exposed Oedipus when he was born, might have played a role in this recognition scene as well. As a result of this revelation, Creon wants to exile Oedipus as further punishment, generating the later fragments. These include Jocasta's support for and sharing of moral responsibility with Oedipus and her accusing Creon of
Aegypius (mythology) fond of taking out eyes; and Timandre into an "aegithalos" (αἰγίθηλος), now the word for "long-tailed tit", but the Greek bird may also be any of the Paridae. This is the fifth story of the "Metamorphoses" of Antoninus Liberalis. He credits the first book of the "Origins of Birds" by Boeus; but neither that nor any other work with this story has survived. Aegypius (mythology) In Greek mythology, Aegypius (Αἰγυπιός), son of Antheus, son of Nomion, a Thessalian, was the lover of Timandre, a widow. Her son, Neophron, resented this relationship, and plotted against it by seducing Bulis (Βοῦλ-ις, -ιδος),