Oedipus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...thus fulfilled. Two sons, Polynices and Eteocles, and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene, were born to the unwittingly incestuous pair. When a plague descended on Thebes, an oracle declared that the only way to rid the land of its pollution was to expel...