Polybus

**Polybus**
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//"King of Corinth"//
husband of Merope or Periboea

He raised Oedipus as his adopted son, who had been abandoned by his parents Lauis and Jocasta of Thebes in Greece. One day, a messenger announces his death: Polybus had been presumed to be the father of Oedipus, and Oedipus thus was considered his rightful heir, but on his deathbed he admits that he found Oedipus abandoned on a mountainside and raised him as his own son.

Sources:

1. http://bama.ua.edu/~ksummers/cl222/LECT19/slide0001_image002.jpg 2. http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/g/polybus.htm 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybus_of_Corinth 4. http://www.answers.com/topic/king-of-corinth-polybus 5. http://www.answers.com/topic/oedipus-4 6. http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Polybus/