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The Sphinx is terrorizing Thebes when Oedipus arrives in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Oedipus arrives in Thebes to find a monstrous Sphinx camped outside the city's entrance. She asks a riddle whose answer she demands upon pain of death. No one knows what the correct response can be. Thebans therefore fear having to go back and forth about their daily business around Thebes.

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