(1) Despite Pelops' kindness to him, Laius wronged Pelops by abducting r ravishing-Chrysippus.

(2) King Laius of Thebes was the third in descent from Cadmus.

(3) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who was abandoned at birth and unwittingly killed his father and then married his mother.

(4) A prophet warned King Laius of Thebes that because he had married his cousin Jocasta, he would be killed by his son.

(5) When Oedipus abused Tiresias as having had a hand in the murder of Laius, Tiresias had the fearless courage to tell the truth that Oedipus was the murderer.

(6) The two of them adopted the infant Oedipus after his father Laius left him to die, heeding a prophecy that his son would kill him, which, of course, he eventually did.

(7) A prophet warned that the trouble would not be removed until the murderer of the former king Laius was driven out of the country.