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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.

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