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Oedipus the King, a play written by Sophocles, tells the story of a man named Oedipus. Oedipus was a king in Greece whose fate was determined by the gods long before his birth. Born in the city- state of Thebes, to the king and queen Laius and Jocaste, Oedipus’ birth was the first in a long sequence of events that prove his destiny to be true and inevitable. Although Oedipus worked his way up to glory, there was no way in which he could avoid his tragic fate which was previously told to his original parents and later to him as well. Oedipus was very intelligent and was seen by many as a hero......