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That she arranges to kill her own child, marries her own son and tries to block a murder investigation are Jocasta's problems in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban Queen Jocasta arranges to have her own son killed in order to prevent his growing up to kill his father and his sovereign. But the three-day-old Oedipus escapes death. He grows up to marry Jocasta, the widowed queen of King Laius. He heads a murder investigation whose course Jocasta tries to block when she realizes that Oedipus is her son and her husband's killer.

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