Laios/Definition

From Greek mythology, he was the king of Thebes, husband of Jocasta, father of Oedipus who was killed by his son by way of a misunderstanding; Oedipus didn't know who has father was; through a sequence of events, characters trying to avoid their fate actually ran into it. Source: Elizabeth Vandiver, Classics scholar, authority on Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, including the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Homer, and Virgil. This definition is based on her course Classical Mythology for The Teaching Company.