Oidipous’s reassurance to his wife that she will not be “deprived” of knowing what things are hard for him to bear rings of double entendre; she will be compelled to learn the unbearable truth about his identity and their marriage, in response to which Homer’s version of the myth allows the audience to anticipate that she will hang herself from the rafters of her bedchamber. [Gd] [Gm] Thus the audience will hear past her claimed right and Oidipous’s intended reassurance to register the god’s grim declaration that he is about to complete the execution of his plan; she will soon share in every suffering to which she has a right. If she has a right, then he has a right, which suggests that Apollo is underscoring the rightfulness of the suffering to which they are both about to be subjected. [Apa] [Mw] [Aj]