Oedipus’s guilt is predestined from birth, not merely discovered after the act.

Evidence

In the paradigm case of Oedipus it is not simply that he unintentionally offends against moral interdictions and only subsequently makes this terrible discovery. It is that he is, from his very birth, destined to do so. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 474

Categorization

• SHARE: For a classicist or someone into Greek tragedy — the distinction between destiny and mere post-hoc discovery of one’s acts is a sharp framing of what makes Oedipus unique.