Kreon’s comment that it is “pious” or “proper” (εὐσεβῶς) only for the immediate family to have contact with one who is contaminated by an atrocity raises questions: What limits an atrocity’s scope of influence? Is not the whole town (whether Thebes or Athens) infected by pollution? [Mpei] And is it not rather to the Olympian gods that the display of piety is owed, for plague, whether this manifests itself as a blight on agriculture, animal husbandry, and human fertility (Thebes) or as fatal disease (Athens), can be presumed to be the direct result of Apollo’s intervention. [P] [Apaon]