To appreciate this truth it becomes necessary to retrace the meeting between Oedipus and King Laius on the way to Thebes while fleeing from Corinth (Sophocles 72). The meeting was in every respect casual, but fate conditioned the two to fight over precedence. The culmination of the argument in a brawl that led to the death of Laius marks the point at which the first fulfillment of the tragedy occurs. Evidently, the workings of chance prepared the ground upon which the dimensions of destiny manifested themselves in a pattern that demonstrates the immutable depth of destiny. Likewise it was predestined that only Oedipus had the perfect answer to the riddle of the sphinx. Obviously, the Sphinx would kill him if he didn't answer correctly. Such was the fate that befell many others who traveled the same path and met the Sphinx with his own