Oidipus however was found on Mount Kithairon by shepherds and was raised by King Polybus and Queen Merope in Korinth. Some years later when he had reached manhood, Oidipous too learned of the prophecy that he was fated to "kill his father and marry his mother." Oidipous who having been raised by Polybus and Merope from imfancy believed they were his biological parents and in his own attempt to thwart the prophecy did the only thing he could think of and left Korinth and travelled Thebes.