The staffperson’s observation that a god must have guided Oidipous because no Theban did so recalls the priest’s reminding Oidipous at the play’s opening that he solved the Sphinx’s riddle without any help from the people of Thebes, but was assisted by a god (ll. 37-8). Now the audience knows that a god must indeed have been at work to bring about Oidipous’s success with the Sphinx. It is therefore altogether plausible that Apollo guided Oidipous to Iokaste. [Apamu]