oedipus Rex

Is the story of oedipus and how his mother and father who are the kind and queen. Are told that their son one will one day kill his father and marry his mother. As a way to keep that from happening they bind him up and peirce his feet with a stake, they give him to herdsman who is ordered to kill him . The heardsman how ever does not , instead gives him to another herdsman gave him to the king . The king than raised him as his son. But when oedipus finds out he is adopted he goes searching for his real parents. On his way to finding his parents he comes across a man in a carrage and gets into a desput and kills him . Little did he know that that was his father. He continues on his journey and is asked to answer a riddle . If he is wrong he will get eaten if he is right he will continue on his journey. He answered correctly and went on his way but than marries the widow queen which is his mother.