Oidipous focuses on the consequences of killing Laios; he has not yet begun to regard himself as Laios’ killer. Accepting only that he is condemned by the seer’s words to “ruin or expulsion,” he does not even begin to wonder when and where he could have committed the crime. So while Oidipous accepts that Kreon has outmaneuvered him in regard to Teiresias’s accusations, he has not yet taken the next mental step to consider their implications and so to approach the realization awaited by the audience that the god has outmaneuvered him by fulfilling Delphi’s pronouncements against his will. [Gd] [Mpea] [Mpei]