"Did you think that I would
never spot such treachery..." (29).
I believe this quote would be ironic to a Greek audience familiar with this play because Oedipus has failed to realize he is the murderer of his father. He doesn't believe the Oracle that was spoken years before he was born, even when it is repeated to him during his reign. Tiresias, the blind Prophet, mentions the oracle in a not-so-subtle way but Oedipus refuses to believe the truth. Sophocles might have made those particular word choices because it is what Oedipus, as well as the town of Thebes, are thinking. This play has had irony on almost every page from the very beginning.
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