Lévi-Strauss' structuralist interpretation of
the Oedipus myth

Cadmos seeks his sister Europa      
    Cadmos kills dragon  
  The Spartoi kill one another    
      Labdacos (Laios' father) = lame (?)
  Oedipus kills his father, Laios   Laios (Oedipus' father) = left-sided (?)
    Oedipus kills Sphinx  
      Oedipus = swollen-foot
Oedipus marries his mother, Jocasta      
  Eteocles kills his brother, Polyneices    
Antigone buries her brother, Polyneices, despite prohibition