Oidipous may intend his self-description as “supremely daring” (παντλήμων) to highlight his suffering, but it also carries a more critical connotation, namely, his willingness to vie with the Apollo. [Gd] [P] [Mp] In daring to challenge prophecy and the god who authorizes it, Athens is similarly supreme. Such egregious impiety prompts the expectation that Athens will, like Oidipous, soon have denied its progeny the benefits of worship at the very temples it has lavishly constructed and furnished. [Gt-a] [Mw]