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Suicide by hanging is the way in which Oedipus' mother dies in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta is Theban King Oedipus' mother. But he only learns of his true parentage many years after he is the respected ruler of Thebes by marrying his royal predecessor's widow. What he does not learn until just before Jocasta's death is that she is the biological mother who gives him up three days after delivering him.

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