Declining animal and human birth rates and failing harvests are the problems affecting Thebes in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).
Specifically, there is a pestilence in Thebes. It is behaving as pestilences often do in ancient Greece: threatening the populations of all life forms and the production of crops. In ancient Greece, pestilences often are interpreted as divine pleasure over a human commission or omission in regard to the gods and their rules.
Thebes is the setting of Oedipus Rex because it is the place where the story begins.
Thebes was the land that Oedipus ruled.
Thebes Thebes
Oedipus Rex is set in ancient Thebes.
Thebes
Thebes is the setting of Oedipus Rex because it is the place where the story begins.
Thebes was the land that Oedipus ruled.
Thebes Thebes
Oedipus Rex is set in ancient Thebes.
Thebes
Yes.
Thebes is the home of Oedipus throughout most of the book although he was born in Cadmus.
Jocasta is Oedipus' mother and wife and queen of Thebes.
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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Laius
Oedipus has become the king of Thebes.