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Oedipus Rex
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Oedipus Rex
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n
(Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
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King Oedipus
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Oedipus
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an imaginary being of myth or fable
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