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CREON

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 409 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CREON , in Greek legend, son of Menoeceus, king of Thebes after the death of Laius, the
husband
  of his
sister
  Jocasta. Thebes was then suffering from the visitation of the
Sphinx
 , and Creon offered his crown and the hand of the widowed queen to whoever should solve the fatal riddle.
Oedipus
 , the son of Laius, ignorant of his parentage, successfully accomplished the task and married Jocasta, his
mother
 . By her he had two sons,
Eteocles
  and Polyneices, who agreed after their father's death to reign in alternative years.
Eteocles
  first ascended the throne, being the elder, but at the end of the year refused to resign, whereupon his brother attacked him at the head of an army of Argives. The war was to be decided by a single combat between the
brothers
 , but both fell. Creon, who had resumed the government during the minority of Leodamas, the son of Eteocles, commanded that the Argives, and above all Polyneices, the cause of all the bloodshed, should not receive the
rites
  of sepulture, and that any one who infringed this decree should be buried alive. Antigone, the
sister
  of Polyneices, refused to obey, and sprinkled dust upon her brother's corpse. The threatened
penalty
  was inflicted; but Creon's crime did not escape unpunished. His son, Haemon, the lover of Antigone, killed himself on her grave; and he himself was slain by Theseus. According to another account he was put to death by Lycus, the son or descendant of a former ruler of Thebes (Euripides, Herc. Fur. 31; Apollodorus iii. 5, 7; Pausanias ix. 5).


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