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That rods are run through both his ankles and that he is abandoned and then fostered into another royal household are what happens to the baby Oedipus in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban monarchs Laius and Jocasta make the decision to have rods run through the ankles of their three-day-old infant son, Oedipus. This is preparatory to the infant being abandoned to inclement weather and foraging wildlife on the mountains outside Thebes. But Jocasta's most trusted servant, a Theban shepherd, has second thoughts and instead hands Oedipus over to a Corinthian shepherd. Upon his return to Corinth, the shepherd gives Oedipus to the childless Corinthian royal household.

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