Usually means: Tragic hero discovers his fate.
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▸ noun:  (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles


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Antigone, Polynices, Eteocles

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