{"product_id":"2940015806779","title":"Oedipus Trilogy","description":"To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him\u003cbr\u003eby his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when\u003cbr\u003ein time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he\u003cbr\u003ewas left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and\u003cbr\u003etended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his\u003cbr\u003emaster, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy,\u003cbr\u003ewho grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards\u003cbr\u003edoubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself\u003cbr\u003ethe word declared before to Laius. Wherefore he fled from what he\u003cbr\u003edeemed his father's house and in his flight he encountered and\u003cbr\u003eunwillingly slew his father Laius. Arriving at Thebes he answered the\u003cbr\u003eriddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king.\u003cbr\u003eSo he reigned in the room of Laius, and espoused the widowed queen.\u003cbr\u003eChildren were born to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but\u003cbr\u003eagain a grievous plague fell upon the city. Again the oracle was\u003cbr\u003econsulted and it bade them purge themselves of blood-guiltiness. Oedipus\u003cbr\u003edenounces the crime of which he is unaware, and undertakes to track out\u003cbr\u003ethe criminal. Step by step it is brought home to him that he is the man.\u003cbr\u003eThe closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus\u003cbr\u003eblinded by his own act and praying for death or exile.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080978514160,"sku":"2940015806779","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015806779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}