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It was in the year 429 B.C.E. that the first performance of "Oedipus Rex" was held.

Specifically, the performance was held at the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, Greece. It is assumed that the play was written in the previous year. But very little information is available about any of the handful of surviving plays by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

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