Polybus

The king of Corinth. One of his herdsmen received the young Oedipus from another and took the child to Polybus' court. Polybus and his wife Periboea, or Merope, raised him as their own child.

References

Sources

  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii 5.7.
  • Sophocles. Oedipus Rex, 770.