oedipus rex

Noun oedipus rex has 1 sense

• oedipus rex(n = noun.person) king oedipus, oedipus - (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles;
is a kind of mythical being