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It is Oedipus who kills his father in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Laius is King Oedipus' father. A stranger murders Laius and gets away. But years later, a murder investigation reveals the stranger to be Oedipus.

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