Kreon can agree to the principle that if one has done a kinsman ill, one must pay the price, but he cannot accept its application to him, because he is unaware of having done his kinsman any injury. In this regard his attitude mirrors Oidipous’s. The difference between them is that Kreon requests to be instructed. Exhorting Oidipous to “teach me” he transforms the forensic confrontation between prosecutor and defendant into a pedagogic relationship between instructor and student. If the audience is looking for a difference between the two men (cf. m548), one seems now to have presented itself. [Md]