When Oidipous announces his capacity to recognize the voice of his loyal supporter even in darkness, the audience will be prompted to contrast this with his failure to hear the voice of the god in the context of a consultation in which the god was not visible and a priestess mediated his speech. [Mp] [Mpei] Oidipous has consistently failed to hear Apollo’s voice even when, as the audience has become aware, the god may be speaking through him or those around him. [Gd] Oidipous knows the choral leader because he is attuned to him; he fails to know the god because he is not attuned to him. To obtain the god’s aid and avoid the god’s enmity one must attune oneself to the god’s voice. While this may often be beyond human capacity, it is not the case at Delphi, where the Pythia serves as a reliable medium for communications from the god. [Mip]