Usually means: Tragic play about fate, guilt.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Oedipus Rex)

noun:  Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles.
noun:  (Edipo re) a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
noun:  an opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky, scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus.
noun:  a play by Sophocles.
noun:  a 1957 film, a film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival production of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.


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