text: John Lydgate wrote an addition to The Canterbury Tales titled for the siege of this city.
full_question: John Lydgate wrote an addition to The Canterbury Tales titled for the siege of this city. A play about a formerking of this place formed the basis for T. S. Eliot's last play, The Elder Statesman. A long poem named for thisplace describes the first Nemean games and describes a hero who gnaws the head of his enemy Melanippus.The maxim that no man should be considered happy until he is dead concludes a play set in this city, whichtitles an epic poem by Statius. In that play set in this city, a servant narrates how the offstage protagonist tookdown his wife's hanging corpse and used the gold pins from her dress to blind himself after learning that hiswife Jocasta was also his mother. For 10 points, name this city, the setting of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex.
first_sentence: John Lydgate wrote an addition to The Canterbury Tales titled for the siege of this city.
raw_answer: Thebes