While Kreon perhaps means to suggest only that Oidipous could be wrong in his judgment of him, his question is so broad as to suggest Oidipous’s ignorance to be absolute. Certainly, he has no understanding of what makes a man good or bad. [Mpea] It is possible, however, that, like the audience, Kreon is not unaware of his own statement’s breadth of scope, for he may have begun to give consideration to the various prophecies he has heard regarding Laios: the prohibition on intercourse with his wife, the birth to them of a son, and his death at that son’s hands. [Mi] If Kreon is thinking of these things now and perhaps connecting them to Teiresias’s accusation, then he may intend to say more with his speech than Oidipous is likely to be able to understand. Kreon may be learning to play with the potential to express a truth through double entendre. [Gd]