每次当我感觉很无奈，无论如何也改变不了既定的命运的时候，我总会想起俄狄浦斯的故事，在网上稍微搜了一下，没怎么找到比较详细的关于俄狄浦斯的故事的文章，找到了一个pdf文档，里面有关于一些他的介绍，但是我觉得这个版本并不是我非常能接受的一个俄狄浦斯的形象，在我认为中，俄狄浦斯是一个比较完美的人，虽然命运如此捉弄他，但是这并不是他的错，从一出生，俄狄浦斯可悲的命运就开始了。
俄狄浦斯：大概意思就是肿痛的脚、受伤的脚肿等等。
不知道希腊神话里怎么人们总是和脚过不去。俄狄浦斯受伤的脚肿，阿克硫斯致命的脚肿……
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文章摘录《Oedipus》（版本一）
A prophet warned King Laius of Thebes that becasue he had married his cousin Jocasta, he would be killed by his son. To avoid the disaster, he ordered his loyal shepherd to kill his new born baby son. The goodhearted slave, however, could not bring himself to do the evil deed. He pierced the baby's feet and tied them with ropes. The he turned the baby over to the care of a fellow shepherd who happened to be the servant of the king of Corinth. The clild was given the name of Oedipus, He was brought up by the childless royal couple as their son and successor. The prince had never doubted that the king was not his real father until one day he heard others talking about his parentage. Deeply troubled, he went to Delphi to require about his birth. There he was warned by Apollo not to return to his native country, becasue, should he do so, he would kill his father and marry his mother. The frightened young man turned his back on Corinth, determined not to return while his sopposed parents lived.
Oedipus had not gone far on his way to Thebes when he saw a cart coming towards him. The man sitting in the cart, angry at the young man in the way, whipped him on the face with an oath, Oedipus jumped onto the cart and killed him in his anger. of the five servants who followed their master on foot, only one escaped narrowly. Little did Oedipus think that the man sitting in the cart was King Laicus., his father. Presently the young man arrived in the kingdom of Thebes. Round about this time, the Thebans were troubled by a women headed monster, called Sphinx, who produced a riddle to them. The crown and the hand of the widow queen were offered to anyone who could solve the riddle. Oedipus met Sphinx on a cliff. To the monster's riddle, "what animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night? " he offered the answer, "Man, Who creeps in infancy, walks up right in manhood, and supports his steps with a staff in old age. " Thus, Sphinx threw herself down into the valley. Oedipus became king of Thebes and husband of the queen, his mother.
For a long time after this event, Oedipus lived in honour and prosperity. Four unnatural children came out of this odd marriage, two sons and two daughters. Then the sad thing came. A plague raged throughout the land. Every family was affected, and not a day went by without new death. A prophet warned that the trouble would not be removed until the murderer of the former king laius was driven out of the country. An old blind seer, Tiresias by name, was brought before the king and, outraged by the king's impolite language, declared that Oedipus himself was the hunted murderer. The king was shocked and annoyed. He called the Theban and Corinthian shepherds to prove the truth. As the two old sheperds had been concerned in his adoption as an infant, the truth finally became known. The queen hanged herself. Oedipus put out of his own eyes with a pin, so that he might not look the sun again. He was driven out of the kindom and wandered from one city to another, untile he found protection in King Theseus' Athens. There at the signal of Zeus' thunder, he mysteriously ended his poor earthly life.
因为是英文版的，鉴于本人的英文水平现在还比较凹，就不用英语来评述啥了。但是我觉得上面节选的一些我觉得不接受的地方。
俄狄浦斯并不是上面说的那么暴躁
拉伊俄斯遭受了诅咒也并不是因为娶了自己的表妹
斯芬克斯的狮子身份没有说明
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版本二
他出生时，父亲忒拜王得到神谕，说他要杀父娶母。
于是把他的脚踵刺穿，丢到荒山野岭，仆人可怜这个刚刚出生的孩子，把他送给科率波斯的一个仆人，然而他却成为了国王波吕波斯的养子。
他长大后知道自己将杀父娶母的神谕，为了逃避这杀人逆伦的可怕命运，他离开了自己的“父母”，向达忒拜走去，在一个三叉路口，他与一个老人争执而误杀了他，那位老人就是微服出访的忒拜王，他的生父拉伊俄斯。然后他以自己的出众才智铲除了危害忒拜的狮身人面女妖斯芬克斯，被忒拜人民拥为国王，并娶了前王的王后（我猜这是一种荣誉和传统，甚至是责任，因为清初草原就有兄死弟娶其嫂的传统，三国就有友死代嫁其妻妾的传统，就像现在有父死子继成其财产一样合理），王后俄卡斯忒——他的生母。他成了杀父娶名的人，自己却毫无所知。
悲剧开始时，瘟疫笼罩忒拜城，按照神示，必须救出杀害前往的凶手，否则全城人民将死于瘟疫中。这时，受到人民爱戴的俄狄浦斯登上王位已经16年。他千方百计追查凶手，结果发现他要找的凶手正是他自己。
伊俄卡斯忒自尽，他刺瞎自己双眼，离开忒拜。
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版本三
拉伊奥斯年轻时曾经劫走国王佩洛普斯（Pelops）的儿子克律西波斯（Chrysippus），因此遭到诅咒，他的儿子俄狄浦斯出生时，神谕表示他会被儿子所杀死，为了逃避命运，拉伊奥斯刺穿了新生儿的脚踝（oidipous 在希腊文的意思即为“肿胀的脚”），并将他丢弃在野外等死。然而奉命执行的牧人心生怜悯，偷偷将婴儿转送给科林斯（Corinth）的国王波吕波斯（Polybus），由他们当作亲生儿子般地扶养长大。
俄狄浦斯长大后，因为德尔菲（Delphi）神殿的神谕说，他会弑父娶母，不知道科林斯国王与王后并非自己亲生父母的俄狄浦斯，为避免神谕成真，便离开科林斯并发誓永不再回来。俄狄浦斯流浪到忒拜附近时，在一个岔路上与一群陌生人发生冲突，失手杀了人，其中正包括了他的亲生父亲。当时的忒拜被狮身人面兽斯芬克斯（Sphinx）所困，因为他会抓住每个路过的人，如果对方无法解答他出的谜题，便将对方撕裂吞食。忒拜为了脱困，便宣布谁能解开谜题，从斯芬克斯口中拯救城邦的话，便可获得王位并娶国王的遗孀约卡斯塔为妻。后来正是由俄狄浦斯解开了斯芬克斯的谜题，解救了忒拜。他也继承了王位，并在不知情的情况下娶了自己的亲生母亲为妻，生了两女：分别是安提戈涅（Antigone）及伊斯墨涅（Ismene）；两个儿子：埃忒奥克洛斯（Eteoclus）及波吕涅克斯（Polyneices）。
后来，受俄狄浦斯统治的国家不断有灾祸与瘟疫，国王因此向神祇请示，想要知道为何会降下灾祸。最后在先知提瑞西阿斯（Tiresias）的揭示下，俄狄浦斯才知道他是拉伊奥斯的儿子，终究应验了他之前杀父娶母的不幸命运。震惊不已的约卡斯塔羞愧地上吊自杀，而同样悲愤不已的俄狄浦斯，则刺瞎了自己的双眼。
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哈哈，毕竟是概括，不能一一说那么清楚的。关于最后俄狄浦斯的死，我觉得是一种解脱，涅槃清净，不知道佛说的解脱的境界到底是如何的。不管如何，俄狄浦斯是解脱了，不过我很迷惑，难道，没有活着的可以解脱的方式么？唉，命运，虽然没有这么绝对，但是很多时候却让我们很无奈！
声明：以上三个版本，均系转载，因为很多地方能查到，无法标明确切的出处，如果有侵权，请于缪斯联系，我会尽快删掉！
