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Ailing livestock and failing crops are Thebes' agricultural problems at the opening of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, a pestilence ravages Thebes. It causes babies to be born dead or to die shortly after birth. It affects the well-being of animals and plants and the food.

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