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That the very person whom she expects to soothe Oedipus with information on the identity of Laius' killer confirms Oedipus' fear that he is Laius' killer is the way in which Jocasta's attempt to soothe Oedipus backfires in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta says that her first husband, King Laius, is killed at the Delphi-Daulia crossroads in Phocis. The crime happens at the very spot where her second husband, King Oedipus, commits murder at about the same time and to a similar person. Jocasta arranges for the lone Survivor and eyewitness to the crime to come to the Theban royal palace. But the Theban shepherd ultimately accuses Oedipus of being Laius' killer and therefore his own father's murderer and his own mother's husband.

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