Editing Oedipus (section)

===Pindar's second ''Olympian Ode''===

In his second ''[[Pindar#Victory odes|Olympian Ode]]'', [[Pindar]] writes:<ref>Pindar, ''Second Olympian Ode''</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=Laius' tragic son, crossing his father's path, killed him and fulfilled the oracle spoken of old at Pytho. And sharp-eyed Erinys saw and slew his warlike children at each other's hands. Yet Thersandros survived fallen Polyneikes and won the honor in youthful contests and the brunt of war, a scion of aid to the house of Adrastos.|title=|source=Lines 35-40.|author=}}