Oidipous clearly did not dare to kill his father and marry his mother; he made great efforts to avoid these deeds, so much so that he dared to counter the god. [Md] [P] So when the Chorus specifies that by “such things” it means the self-blinding, this underscores the fact that it has failed to identify the most audacious aspects of Oidipous’s behavior. The Chorus is no better off now than it was before being exposed to the example of Oidipous’s stunning fall from grace. The god’s project to “make [his terrible deeds] known to all mankind” as announced by the Homeric version of the myth is thus far a failure, which means that the miseries cannot yet be expected to come to an end. The audience will anticipate, then, that more travail is in store for Thebes, and indeed it knows the precise nature of this city’s coming troubles. [Mw] [Aj] [Gm] The same can be extrapolated to Athens; having failed to identify the impiety in its own attitudes, the audience can expect travail at the god’s hands to carry over to the next generation. [Gt-a]