Oedipus (Seneca) it is debated whether the play was written for performance in Antiquity, it has been successfully staged since the Renaissance. The director Ovliakuli Khodzhakuli made his cinematic debut in 2004 with the Kirghiz language film, "Edip", which is based on Seneca's play. Khodzhakuli makes a cameo appearance in the film as king Laius. The main stars are Anna Mele as Oedipus, and Dzhamilia Sydykbaeva as Jocasta. For a review of the film, see Oedipus (Seneca) Oedipus is a "fabula crepidata" (Roman tragic play with Greek subject) of c. 1061 lines of verse that was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca at
Oedipus Rex descendants (although many scholars regard Laius' transgressions against Chrysippus to be a late addition to the myth). When his son is born, the king consults an oracle as to his fortune. To his horror, the oracle reveals that Laius "is doomed to perish by the hand of his own son". Laius binds the infant's feet together with a pin, and orders Jocasta to kill him. Unable to kill her own son, Jocasta orders a servant to slay the infant for her. The servant then exposes the infant on a mountaintop, where he is found and rescued by a shepherd (in