Kreon asks his brother-in-law to confirm that in ruling he allows his wife an equal measure of all the rights, privileges, and benefits of their station: they have equal decision-making, but he can also be understood to insist that they “hold” and “possess” the same things. Thus again Kreon’s speech overreaches its intended meaning and points towards not only shared power and privileges but the commong holding of all things, including bed and children. The implication of Kreon’s question echoes Teiresias’s declaration (ll. 414 ff.) that Oidipous does not know where he is or with whom he is living. Thus, the discourse continues to operate at two levels: one directed by mortal, the other by divine intellect. [Gd] [Mp] [Apcmu]