I just read Oedipus Rex for myself, and it got me wondering:

Not entirely related, but considering you've read it recently, what connection did Kreon and Teiresias have? I can't remember what it was exactly, and I was wondering cause I've just read Antigone. What profession did Kreon have in Oidipous Rex?

>>8698384
No connection, really. Oidipus had sent Kreon to hear from the oracles how he could handle the plague which was ravaging Thebes. Teiresias just happened to be the oracle closest to Apollon, so Kreon brought him to Oidipus. Since Apollon is the god behind the entire mess in these plays, they spoke with Teiresias whenever they needed to consult the gods.

Kreon became Oidipus' brother-in-law, so he's just helping Oidipus as an adviser, I believe.

>>8698336
Those three shouldn't be read as a trilogy as they weren't written and performed as one, like Oresteia was for example. They were written as much as 20 years apart. As for Oedipus before Sophocles, try Iliad XXIII 676, Odyssey XI 271, Pindar, Olympian II 72

>>8699188
Thank you

Tiresias is mentioned in Ovid and is the name of a Plato dialogue(?) as well I believe.

>>8699918
Also appears in the Odyssey as a spectre. And in many Thebean myths.

>>8699937
kek

I don't think that Oedipus going to Athens was accepted canonical by most of the Greek States or Thebes; it was common in Athenian tragedy to praise themselves as being some sanctity city that always piously and principally defends defenseless suppliants as a propaganda.

There's probably 'no original myths', but simply different narratives that even in the contemporary world of Sophocles couldn't trace. The were various Epic Poems that is now described as the 'Theban cycle' that all were made before Sophocles time, that he probably drew upon and relied on some the audience knowing some of them, and some of just the essential folk-tale basics of the cycle.

Oedipus was said by different accounts to have continued to rule and not fled the kingdom either, which is different from Sophocles account.

Greek religion wasn't orthodox. There were various accounts of particular myths of Gods and Heros that could differ among people or different regions.