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King of Thebes is Oedipus' role in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Oedipus thinks that he is King of Thebes because he marries beautiful widowed Queen Jocasta. But he really is king because the position becomes vacant with the murder of King Laius, Jocasta's first husband. There is a job opening because Oedipus kills an older version of himself, and that older look-alike turns out to be Laius.

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