While the observation that Oidipous does not see the many griefs to come for himself and his children puts the audience back on solid interpretive ground, for it knows that the griefs to come include Iokaste’s suicide, the publication of Oidipous’s terrible deeds, and his children’s ruin, it will find its understanding challenged by the verb meaning “to make equal.” The evils to come with the revelation will, Teiresias now prophesies, make Oidipous equal with himself and his children. The expression assumes that Oidipous is not presently equal to himself. What could this mean? That he will be made equal to his children is perhaps more comprehensible. It will be discovered that he is their sibling—a half-brother from the same mother. This part of the seer’s riddle is one that the audience can grasp. Equality with himself might mean several things. He is presently Thebes’ ruler due to the merit of having eliminated the sphinx, but he will learn that he should have been Thebes’ ruler by birth. He will learn that he is the person for whom he has been searching; subject and object of the search are one and the same. And perhaps, when all has been revealed, it will be understood that he and the citizenry thought of him as better than he was—in many respects he has been regarded a god. To be made equal to himself would mean to be made to be seen as no more than a man, with all his limitations. [Apao] [Mpe] [P]