His unswerving confidence in his innocence even causes him to accuse his own brother in law, Creon, of conspiring against him to steal the throne. ... After speaking with the messenger from Corinth who was an actual witness to his being given away by Jocasta, he still must hear it from the mouth of the shepherd who found him as a baby. ...

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