In ancient Greece, there was a queen named Jocasta who ended up marrying her own son. Here's how it happened. Oedipus was the son of Laius, the king of Thebes, and his wife, Jocasta. Before he was born, an oracle predicted that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. Laius and Jocasta were horrified by this, so they decided to kill their newborn son. They told a servant to leave the baby on a mountain to die, but the servant felt sorry for the baby. Instead of leaving him to die, the servant gave him to a shepherd from the nearby city of Corinth. The shepherd then took the baby to the king and queen of Corinth, who couldn't have children. They were happy to adopt him and raise him as their own.

When Oedipus grew up, he visited an oracle and heard the same terrible prophecy: that he would kill his father and marry his mother. To avoid this fate, Oedipus decided to leave Corinth. On his journey, he got into an argument with an older man on the road and killed him. That man was actually Laius,, though Oedipus didn't know it.

Eventually, Oedipus arrived in Thebes, where he found the city in trouble because of a monster called the Sphinx. The Sphinx asked people a riddle, and if they couldn't solve it, she would kill them. Oedipus solved the riddle, which made him a hero. The people of Thebes were so happy that they made him their king and gave him the hand of the widowed queen, Jocasta. Neither Oedipus nor Jocasta knew that they were actually mother and son.

Thus, the prophecy came true, but no one knew until much later, when the terrible truth was revealed.
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