Has Oidipous actually achieved anything? Weeping achieves nothing. It demonstrates that Oidipous blind possesses no greater insight than sighted; it suggests that he no longer sees any avenue for action. The problem is that he has always insisted upon directing his own action based on his own assessment of what was necessary and just, even when the matter involved divine or daemonic forces. So, while he has in the course of this play’s action become far more experienced in “interventions of the gods” (l. 34), this has only gone to demonstrate the insufficiency of his own assumption that he can tackle those interventions on his own. Rather than demonstrating his supposed expertise in dealing with the daemonic, he has shown his powers in this regard to be puny and his judgment faulty. [Mpea] His resistance to the god has only demonstrated that all the advantages lie on the side of the god. [Ap] Kreon does right to order him off the stage. Meanwhile, the audience may now wish to show its support for the new consultation with Delphi ordered by Kreon by returning to the supplication whose interruption by Oidipous it welcomed when the play began. Supplication and other displays of piety are not pointless if they make a show of an appropriate public attitude towards action taken in cooperation with the gods. [P] [Dnc]