The “holy” or “conspicuous” (εὐαγῆ) resolution that Iokaste seeks is clearly in the process of being delivered. It will not, however, be to her liking. As she begins her speech by expressing her intention to petition the god’s help, but in so doing demonstrates why the god might find it necessary to punish her along with Oidipous, she concludes her speech by directly asking the god for aid in warding off a signal catastrophe that the audience knows to be a project of his devising. The scope of her catastrophe is in fact far greater than she has yet realized, which means that she has yet to realize that the prophecies she has ignored or sought to nullify must all necessarily be brought to fruition. Thus while she may be petitioning the god for aid, she is not yet capable of understanding that as she continues not only to ignore the kind of aid that the god most readily provides (i.e. prophecy), but to advise against it, she makes it necessary for the god, if he is at all inclined to provide mortals with divine guidance and assistance, to make her the most conspicuous possible example of divine correction (λύσιν). [P] [Mi] [Apc] [Apa] [Dn] [Aj]