Oidipous finally speaks directly to the point of Iokaste’s interest, telling her that Kreon named him Laios’ murderer. This statement misrepresents what Oidipous knows through his own direct experience, because Teiresias, not Kreon, is the one who made the accusation. The closest Kreon has come to accusing Oidipous is his failure to repudiate Teiresias for purportedly having said such a thing. Kreon seems rather to have responded to the accusation by judiciously refraining from expressing any conclusions of his own. This restraint does imply a modicum of respect for the seer’s pronouncements, even when they confound both expectation and explanation. Oidipous’s presently attributing Teiresias’s statement to Kreon only calls attention to the difference in the stance Kreon and he take to the seer’s prophecies. The audience knows Kreon’s cautious respect for the seer to be appropriate, both because Teiresias possesses genuine insight and also because the respect he shows the seer expresses his respect for Apollo. [Mpe] [Mi] [P]