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While praying to Apollo at the beginning of a play, this character’s wife recounts his life story while he is imprisoned in a palace. This character’s wife kills herself after two of their sons kill each other in Euripides’ play The Phoenician Women. This character says, “the gods can never die. All else in the world almighty Time obliterates” while he talks to Theseus, who alone knows the location of this man’s (15[1])(*) tomb. (10[1])This character seeks out a shepherd who saw him fight at a crossroads. (10[2])After this man’s wife hangs herself, he uses her golden brooch to gouge out (10[1])his eyes. This character, who dies at Colonus, was left on Mount Cithaeron as a baby by his father Laius, who he later unknowingly kills. For 10 points, name this king of Thebes who marries his mother Jocasta in a play by Sophocles. ■END■

ANSWER: Oedipus [accept Oedipus at Colonus; accept Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King; accept Laius before “imprisoned” is read]
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