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Defeating the Sphinx, ending the pestilence and solving Laius' murder are Oedipus' accomplishments in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Oedipus becomes king of Thebes by defeating the monstrous Sphinx and marrying the city's beautiful widowed queen. He does so by being the only one to answer the Sphinx's riddle of what life form moves on fours in the morning, twos in the afternoon and threes in the evening. Years later, he ends the pestilence by turning himself in as the killer of Laius, his royal predecessor and his wife's first husband.

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