The Theban Shepherd, the Old Man Who Gave Ettipus Away to the Corinthians

Ettipus, the son of King Lyus and Queen Jocasta, was left to die in a hollow. A messenger from Corinth said he'd been a shepherd who found the baby with metal rivets through his ankles which was why the shepherd had named him Ettipus. The old man revealed that long ago he had known another old man, the Corinthian, back when they'd each had flocks of sheep in the borderlands between Thebes and Corinth. They'd given it to him so that he'd kill it. Even knowing the prophecy that the baby would kill its father, even knowing this, the Shepherd said he couldn't take an innocent life. He'd