In patients with swollen ankles high blood pressure is often seen as a causative agent. Steroids and Antidepressants are also seen as causes of Swollen Ankles. These medicines widen the small blood vessels resulting in leakage of fluids from vessels to the tissues.
When the truth was discovered, his wife-mother hanged herself, and Oedipus gouged out his own eyes. They had four children together. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles 's tragedy Oedipus the King, which was followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone.
Aristotle said Oedipus the King was the perfect tragedy, and if literary historyâwith it's absolute love of heroes with serious family issues and the fate of a civilization resting in their handsâis anything to go on, he was dead on. Luke Skywalker. Hamlet. Most of the characters in Game of Thrones.