In trying to guess what sexual union produced Oidipous, the Chorus gives free reign to its imagination, yet where Oidipous embraces the idea that his parents might be slaves, the Chorus can only imagine that he was born of a god. [Mpei] Despite all the evidence to which it has been privy, it openly celebrates its own fantasy, or rather delusion, that Oidipous is himself a god. [Mpea] It is in this respect returning to the belief it displayed at the play’s opening, but where the audience might then have been inclined to join in Thebes’ enthusiasm for mortal problem-solving, it will at this point understand that the error is one for which the gods punish cities. [Aj] [Mw]