Laius

A minor character is at the center of this play. We know him, if at all, only as a murder victim. As the man killed by his own son, Oedipus. His widow, Jocasta, unknowingly fathers more children incestuous with that son. Among them is Antigone. As the great-grandson of the man who founded Thebes - not without first sowing an army from dragon's teeth - Laius does everything to escape his role (in the family, the city, the myth). Appointed heir to ...