# Laius — Discourses character guide

> Laius in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Theban king, father of Oedipus, used in tragic examples.

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