Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King

What is the moral of this story?

Oedipus and his relationship with his mother

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I suppose it's never sleep with your mother but contemporary morals don't fit the context of this great myth. Sophecles was more interested in greater thematic content than a simple moral.

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