When Kreon says it pains him to be called κακός, the audience will hear an echo, first, of Oidipous’s saying that he would be κακός if he were not to do “all things, as many as the god makes clear” (l. 77), and second, of the Chorus erroneously insisting that Oidipous will never be found guilty of κακία (l. 512). But the Chorus is wrong, and Oidipous, not Kreon, will prove to have behaved ignominiously. Oddly, however, while Kreon focuses on the opinion in which he is held by fellow mortals, it is Oidipous who claims to measure his virtue by his subservience to the god. Oidipous seems more pious and more virtuous, but this view is placed in radical question by the paradox that compliance with a prophetic utterance will forever mark him as ignominy’s defining instance. Oidipous is thinking of course of Delphi’s instruction to find Laios’ killer, while the audience might rather think of the prophecy that he must kill his father and marry his mother. Kreon, by contrast, is worrying about the judgment of his fellow mortals. The juxtaposition of these two men and the different angles from which they expect to be judged highlights the fact that the apparently more pious and self-effacing Oidipous will be made to suffer more than Kreon, whose character seems less noble. Apollo, it would seem, is unjust. [Md] [Aj]