As promised by myth, Iokaste has hanged herself. [Gm] At the sight Oidipous bellows like an animal. His pain has stripped him of his self-control. [Mw] His reason no longer has any questions to pose. The image recalls the Chorus’s imaginative description of a wild bull trampling prophecy on a bad foot (ll. 478-82). Working through Oidipous, a god has brought that bull to bay. Apollo has turned Oidipous’s intellect against itself, stripping it away to discover the beast beneath the civilized surface. [Apa] [Md]