Oidipous seems to pose the rhetorical question, whether the divine “contrivance” that put him in power was not “foolish.” The foolishness, however, was his for thinking that he could evade parricide and incest when in fact the god had proclaimed the necessity of his killing his father and marrying his mother. His foolishness continues into the present, where his personal example negates his own claim that it is impossible to come to power without money or friends, for when he arrived at Thebes he was utterly alone and without resources, and yet he was thrust immediately into a position of power and the marriage to cement it. [Gd] [Mpei] [Apa]