If the daughters are to be reproached for parricide and incest, that will be unjust, for of that they are innocent. Indeed, Oidipous’s own responsibility for parricide and incest can be (and often is) disputed. He can justly be reproached for his part in failing to discover what the god wanted of him and then complying. The same reproaches await his daughters, but only if they fail to seek instruction from Apollo or if, like their brother-father, they seek it but fail to obtain greater clarity, or like their grandfather and grandmother-mother, if they decline to follow the god’s instructions. They stand to this prophecy as Oidipous once stood to Delphic prophecy; fulfillment depends entirely upon its recipients’ ability to interrogate the god and so to discover what it is necessary for them to do. [Mw] [P] [Mipd]