Thebes

The Sphinx had eaten hundreds of people on their way to the city of Thebes, because they could not answer the riddle the cunning Sphinx had asked them.

Make me a conqueror of all nations; let the famous chariot carry me all the way from the sun to Thebes in triumph: I will consider myself human even when I am hailed everywhere as a god.

What art thou that hast come to glorious Thebes?

Make me vanquisher of all the nations; build me a chariot bearing me in triumph all the way to Thebes: I will consider myself a mere man, when I am all around hailed as a god.

Oedipus' father was Laius, king of Thebes.