Besides, it is I who acquired the powers that were his and who shares his marital bed and his fertile wife” (Sophocles 18, line 260). He rants and raves about how he saw the truth. Then he returns to his palace, unable to bear it any longer, blinds himself, staggers and demands that someone send him into exile. Is this enough to erase his guilt? The ambiguity lies in the fact that Oedipus continues to live even though his father and mother died violent deaths that are intrinsically his fault. Even in modern times, ignorance of the law is not a