It is strange that Oidipous says he has not “yet” laid eyes on Laios. Surely, he does not ever expect to see him. His saying οὐ . . . πω only reminds the audience that he will soon “see” that the man he killed long ago was Laios, Thebes’ king and his own father. Clearly, if the gods are to make his deeds known to all men, as Homer says they will, the audience could now understand this to refer not only to all other men, but even—and perhaps especially—to Oidipous himself, who appears to be otherwise incapable of seeing in a clear light the facts of his own life. The cure for his blindness must come from the gods, but surely not in the form of prophecy, for prophecy should have enabled Oidipous to recognize the man he killed to be, if not as Laios’ king, then his father. [Mpe] [Mi]