Oidipous will not in fact be the one to see to the killer’s “reward”—Apollo will do that. Oidipous very clearly substitutes himself for the god, whose instructions he is in fact following, but this he seems to forget, which suggests that he would prefer to remove the god from prominence and from the scene itself, while he steps forward into both. Yet the audience sees that Apollo is acting through Oidipous’s agency even when Oidipous will neither recognize nor wish it. [Md] [P] [Ap] [Aj]