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Her experiences with prophecies and her first husband's crime scene are what Jocasta tells Oedipus in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta concludes that not all prophecies come true because of her first husband King Laius' predicted fate to be killed by his son. Instead, Laius dies at the hands of robbers in the Delphi-Daulia intersection in the neighboring land of Phocis. She says that this happens just before her second husband Oedipus defeats the Sphinx and settles down in Thebes.

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