Having just animated the wilderness, Oidipous addresses “nuptials” as if they had planned and executed his incestusous relationship. Again he seems to have forgotten the words of the god and thus to ignore Apollo’s role in orchestrating his marriage and the birth of sibling-children. Ignoring the role of the god he turns away from a confrontation with the divine gift to him of foreknowledge and the question of his own responsibility to make proper use of it. Indeed, according to his own report, the god promised to make him the agent in bringing forth an “intolerable family” for the world to see (ll. 791-2). That this threat has been realized precisely as the god said it would seems now to escape Oidipous; it will not, however, escape the audience, that can again see Oidipous’s persistent blindness as a continued affront to the god. Attributing the shocking equation of “brides, wives, mothers” to “nuptials” rather than to the god, Oidipous again misses his own responsibility for the relationships that he finds “most shameful.” The audience will clearly not miss the fact that the onus lies not with “nuptials,” but with the god, and that the god only brought these about in response to Oidipous’s “most shameful” action to invalidate a Delphic prophecy and to challenge Apollo’s capacity to bring it about. [Mpei] [Md] [Mip] [P] [Apa]