When the Chorus addresses Oidipous as τλᾶμον, by which it must mean to praise his boldness and daring, it uses the same word that Oidipous used when wondering how the woman who had just given birth could give her baby up to be killed. Her action seemed to him monstrous, and so he characterized her as “over-bold” and “reckless” (l. 1179). Now the word’s repetition will prompt the audience to try this characterization against him and so to find that his daring has gone too far; not only has it ruined him, it has cost many lives and monstrously endangered the future of his entire city. [Md] [Mw] His recklessness is closely associated with his eudaimonia—apparent good fortune. Thus his fortunes can be understood in terms of his alienation of the god’s support, which occurred when he abandoned the god’s sacred precinct at Delphi without giving him his due honor, that is: without inquiring more closely into the god’s will and without presenting himself to the god as a willing instrument in the performance of whatever actions the god might deem necessary. [Dnc] [Mipd] [P]