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That they are cursed by the gods is the reason why Oedipus' family has so many troubles in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Oedipus is the great-great-grandson of Thebes' Founder King Cadmus. Even though he is the grandson of Poseidon the sea god, Cadmus is cursed for among other things seeing Athena the goddess of wisdom in her bath. Cadmus' son Polydorus and grandson Labdacus get on the divine hate list for descending from Cadmus and for irritating Dionysos the wine god, Cadmus' nephew. More curses are added with each generation so the ill will is at its maximum by the time Oedipus is born into his divinely cursed existence.

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