Herodotus, Histories, ed. A.D. Godley, 4.149.2

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[2] The men of this clan, finding that none of their children lived, set up a temple of the avenging spirits of Laïus and Oedipus, by the instruction of an oracle,¹ after which their children lived. It fared thus, too, with the children of the Aegidae at +Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera.

Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.

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[2] τοῖσι δὲ ἐν τῇ φυλῇ ταύτῃ ἀνδράσι οὐ γὰρ ὑπέμειναν τὰ τέκνα, ἱδρύσαντο ἐκ θεοπροπίου Ἐρινύων τῶν Λαΐου τε καὶ Οἰδιπόδεω ἱρόν· καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ὑπέμειναν¹ τὠυτὸ τοῦτο καὶ ἐν Θήρῃ τοῖσι ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τούτων γεγονόσι.

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1. Oedipus, son of Laius king of Thebes [23.3333,38.325] (Perseus) Thebes and his wife Iocasta, was exposed in infancy, but rescued and carried away to a far country. Returning in manhood, ignorant of his lineage, he killed his father and married his mother; after which the truth was revealed to him, too late. The story is first told by Homer, and is the subject of the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles.

Herodotus Histories 4.149.2

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