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A pestilential environment is the situation in Thebes in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, a pestilence afflicts the entire city and surrounding area. Livestock ail, children die and crops fail. It can go on until all life dies in Thebes or until the guilty in Laius' murder can be found and punished.

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