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No, Oedipus is not moral in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Oedipus knowingly kills four servants and an older version of himself, who turns out to be his father. He then lets himself be rewarded for defeating the monstrous Sphinx by marrying a beautiful, older widowed queen, who turns out to be his mother. He twice neglects to carry out mandatory cleansing rituals regarding violent death. He slips up because he is careless about what he knows and is not applying and about what he sees and is not processing.

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