By the way...
Yes.From Justin Martyr’s Discourse to the Greeks, last sentence of chapter 3:
For what need is there of speaking of the goad of Oedipus, and the murder of Laius, and the marrying his mother, and the mutual slaughter of those who were at once his brothers and his sons?
I know this is a story about a god. Nevertheless, I don’t think the story has him “marrying” his mother in the sense of forming a legal contract with her, or promising a permanent bond with her. Does the story of Oedipus in Greek mythology claim any deeper relationship between him and his mother other than sex?
As I recall the story, Oedipus and his mother were really married, although he kind of won her as a prize after he killed his father. He did not realize that it was his father he had killed nor his mother that he had married because he was raised by a shepherd who found him after he was left outside the city to die of exposure. The reason his parents, Laius and Jocasta, tried to commit infanticide is because of a prophecy that Oedipus would, in fact, kill his father and marry his mother. He is not a god, just a mythical figure, whose name Freud used to describe a troubling sexual perversion.