Oidipous asks not about the incident, upon which the audience has fastened its attention, but about his parents’ identity. Yet if they are in fact those who raised him in Corinth, far from Thebes and Teiresias, Teiresias should have had no occasion to advise them. Oidipous might rather have asked, “When did you meet them?” Instead, he returns to the question that he once went to Delphi to ask. It is notable, however, that he directs the question of his parents’ identity not to the divine prophet, but to the man. He asks not for prophecy, but for information the seer would have based on his direct personal experience. No matter how angry and dismissive Oidipous has been towards Teiresias for his prophecies, the moment that the seer speaks as a mere mortal, Oidipous is interested in what he has to say. [Mpea] [Md]