Oedipus Rex many Greek myths, and similarities to Oedipus can for example be seen in the myth of the birth of Perseus. Two oracles in particular dominate the plot of "Oedipus Rex". In lines 711 to 714, Jocasta relates the prophecy that was told to Laius before the birth of Oedipus. Namely: "(The oracle) told him" "that it was his fate that he should die a victim" "at the hands of his own son, a son to be born" "of Laius and me." The oracle told to Laius tells only of the patricide; the incest is missing. Prompted by Jocasta's recollection, Oedipus
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