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Incest is what is taboo about "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, taboo refers to what is forbidden, not to be emulated or imitated. The description fits incest. In ancient Greece, mother-son incest falls into the category of blasphemous offenses against the gods. It can only be done by the gods since the mother-son incest of Gaia and Uranus is the way in which the universe starts.

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