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Pestilential describes the conditions in Thebes at the start of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, a pestilence afflicts all Thebes. It causes children to be born dead or die shortly thereafter, crops to fail and livestock to ail. It needs to be ended before all life ends in Thebes.

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