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Oedipus the King (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος Oidipous Turannos) also known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles’s three Theban plays to be produced but it comes first in the internal chronology followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone.

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author
Sophocles
character in play
* Messenger, * Creon, * Jocasta, * Oedipus, * Priest, * Second Messenger, * Shepherd, * Tiresias
chorus character in play
Theban Elders
genre
Tragedy
mute character in play
Daughters of Oedipus (Antigone and Ismene)
original language
Ancient Greek
premiere place
Theatre of Dionysus, Classical Athens
premiere year
-429-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
series
Sophocles
setting of play
Thebes

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