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Death is the way in which Oedipus plans to punish Creon in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Oedipus decides that his royal advisor, Teiresias the blind prophet, and his royal colleague, Creon, are conspiring to grab all royal powers for themselves. He confronts Creon, his brother-in-law and uncle, but rejects the latter's spirited but logical self-defense. Oedipus announces that punishment options are exile or execution, and he favors the latter.

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