Ten points extra credit will be awarded to the first individual that can explain in his or her OWN words what events transpired before the beginning of Antigone. HINT: the answer can actually be found in the play and will need to be pieced together with the information from the mythology book.
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I'm not entirely sure if this is what you meant (the events should be pieced together within the play, however it tells the myth before the start of Antigone) Oediupus' parents had consulted a oracle who told them that Their son would kill his mother and marry his wife. In horror they passed the baby who eventually ended up in a new king and queens hands.
He grew up to be just Oediupus, but he eventually heard of the prophecy. He did not know of his true parents, and thought the others were his TRUE parents, so he ran away.
On his journey to the next city (his true home) a man tried to run him over with a chariot. He challenged and killed the man. On arriving to the city he heard it was the city's evil king.
As a reward he was let to marry the queen, and then had 2 sons and 2 daughters. Eventually he came to realize the careless evil man whom he had killed was his father and his wife was also his mother. He gouged out his eyes for being so blind to what he had done, and his mother/wife slit her throat. A tragic family to come from. His sons went on to kill each other over the throne, and Antigone and her sister arguing over the burial is where the play itself starts.
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