Laïos

Role: son of Labdacos · First appears: Book 5 · §36–44

Book 5 · §36–44

• with Dorieos (Dorieos was advised using oracles attributed to Laïos.) “Then Antichares a man of Eleon gave him counsel out of the oracles of Laïos to make a settlement at Heracleia in Sicily,”

Book 5 · §52–62

• parent: Labdacos “this inscription would be of an age contemporary with Laïos the son of Labdacos, the son of Polydoros, the son of Cadmos.”
• child: OEdipus “now Scaios would be the son of Hippocoön (at least if it were really he who offered it, and not another with the same name as the son of Hippocoön), being of an age contemporary with OEdipus the son of Laïos:”

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