<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Tragedy </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Setting </Th> <Td> Thebes </Td> </Tr> <P> Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος IPA: (oidípuːs týranːos)), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC . Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply Oedipus (Οἰδίπους), as it is referred to by Aristotle in the Poetics . It is thought to have been renamed Oedipus Tyrannus to distinguish it from another of Sophocles' plays, Oedipus at Colonus . In antiquity, the term "tyrant" referred to a ruler, but it did not necessarily have a negative connotation . </P> <P> Of his three Theban plays that have survived, and that deal with the story of Oedipus, Oedipus Rex was the second to be written . However, in terms of the chronology of events that the plays describe, it comes first, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone . </P>

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