Now she seeks refuge upon her marriage bed, the very place where her most heinous deeds were committed. This is where, flaunting the god’s injunction, she slept with Laios. This is where she gave birth to the child who, as foretold by the god, would kill her husband. This is where she slept with that son, though not realizing who he was. This is where she gave birth to the children who are her husband’s siblings and her own grandchildren, hence, in Homer’s language: abominations. Her bed is the place of her defiance of the god, and it is the place where the god now lays her low. Her destruction is thus the product of her own consistent and repeated error and at the same time a sign of the god’s power. [Mw] [Mpea] [Apa]