Rapaire, You may not be as far off as you think. Emanuel Velikovsky in his 1960 book Oedipus and Akhnaton makes a credible case that the Oedipus legend is based on the real life of the Egyptian Pharoh Akhnaton (Amenhotep IV). The story became transported from the great Egyptian capital called Thebes to the insignificant Greek village of the same name. Even the graves in Egypt's Valley of the Kings attest to this identification.

      - Mark