Oidipous seems to leave himself out of the reproaches that will attach to his parents and daughters, but the incest with his mother makes him a part of both generations; he has been both a recipient and a carrier of the family’s blameworthy attitudes. That breaking the cycle will therefore clearly involve someone already contaminated as a recipient, perhaps even already as a transmitter of destructive attitudes did not occur to the generation that gave birth to Oidipous, it has not yet occurred in Oidipous, and myth makes it clear that it will not occur in the generation of Oidipous’s children. In Athens, however, this question remains open; the present generation can break with the attitudes and behavioral patterns that it has inherited from its parents and so liberate itself and its children from the destructions that otherwise will attend. It would signal this break by choosing even now to submit to Delphi. [Mpea] [Mip]