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It is Oedipus who relieves Thebes of the Sphinx in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, the Sphinx imposes a riddle and a tax on all Thebes. She particularly likes to ask a riddle to which incoming and outgoing Thebans must respond upon pain of death. Thebans remain clueless and so the Sphinx gets to feed her limitless appetite for freshly killed Thebans.

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