more Oedipa

[Joseph Tracy]

Another connection to the Oedipus story is Oedipus's pursuit of the  
killer of King Laius.  The pursuit of the real world implications of  
the  murder in the Courier's tragedy may not point to Oedipa but it  
does point to her identity as a patriot.
      Below from Wikipedia
Oedipus or Oedipais?

It has been suggested by some that in the earliest Ur-myth of the  
hero, he was called Oedipais: "child of the swollen sea."[22] He was  
so named because of the method by which his birth parents tried to  
abandon him -- by placing him in a chest and tossing it into the  
ocean. The mythic topos of foresaking a child to the sea or a river  
is well attested, found (e.g.) in the myths of Perseus, Telephus,  
Dionysus, Moses, and Romulus and Remus.[23] Over the centuries,  
however, Oedipais seems to have been corrupted into the familiar  
Oedipus: "swollen foot."