Oidipous calls Kreon his “in-law” (κήδευμα), yet the audience may recognize that this term only accommodates half the truth, for he is also an uncle. Thus, the audience is reminded both of Oidipous’s incestuous marriage, the discovery of which is to mark his fall, and his ignorance, which is to be cured by divine intervention. Yet, as he calls out to the god who seems most likely to crush him, Oidipous’s ignorance serves as a further example of his confused piety, for if he were to take absolutely seriously the prophecy that he was bound to marry his mother, then he should at some moment suppose that this would make Kreon is uncle. So, while he took the earlier prophecy seriously enough to take flight to Thebes in order to avert it, he seems now to have put all thought of it aside, presumably because he believes that by coming to Thebes and remaining there he has managed to outrun it. The audience, knowing that he has not done so, can also see that such self-confidence is the utmost expression of ignorance combined with arrogance. Indeed, in view of the suffering in store for Oidipous at the hands of the god, the audience would begin to recognize that ignorance, arrogance, and impiety are closely related. [Md] [Mpei] [P]