Oedipus Rex reveals the prophecy which caused him to leave Corinth (791-93): "that I was fated to lie with my mother," "and show to daylight an accursed breed" "which men would not endure, and I was doomed" "to be murderer of the father that begot me." The implication of Laius's oracle is ambiguous. One interpretation considers that the presentation of Laius's oracle in this play differs from that found in Aeschylus's Oedipus trilogy produced in 467 BC. Helaine Smith argues: Sophocles had the option of making the oracle to Laius conditional ("if" Laius has a son, that son will kill him) or
Oedipus Rex Schickele parodies both the story of "Oedipus rex" and the music of Stravinsky's oratorio-opera of the same name in "Oedipus Tex", a Western-themed oratorio purportedly written by P.D.Q. Bach, released in 1990 on the album "Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities". Chrysanthos Mentis Bostantzoglou makes a parody of this tragedy in his comedy "Medea" (1993). In episode ten of the second season of '"CNNNN"', an Australian satirical television program made by The Chaser, a short animation in the style of a Disney movie trailer, complete with jaunty music provided by Andrew Hansen, parodies "Oedipus Rex". Apart from being advertised as