Oedipus had killed Laius, and discovered that he himself was responsible. Jocasta, upon realizing that she had married both her own son, and her husband's murderer, hanged herself. Oedipus then seized two pins from her dress and blinded himself with them. The legend of Oedipus has been retold in many versions, and was used by Sigmund Freud to name and give mythic precedent to the Oedipus complex. Variations on the legend of Oedipus are mentioned in fragments by several ancient Greek poets including Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus and Euripides. However, the most popular version of the legend comes from the set
Magnes (son of Aeolus) became king of the island while his brother Dictys, a fisherman would later receive Danae and her son Perseus. Pierus, the father of Hyacinth by the Muse Clio, was also called a son of Magnes. The scholiast of Euripides called Magnes' wife as Philodice and his sons Eurynomus and Eioneus. Otherwise, Eustathius named his wife as a certain Meliboea and mentions one son, Alector and adds that Magnes called the town of Meliboea, at the foot of mount Pelion, after his wife, and the country of Magnesia after his own name. Magnes (son of Aeolus) In Greek mythology, Magnes (Ancient