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The Creon of Oedipus Rex is in some ways different and in some ways similar to the Creon of Antigone. In Oedipus Rex, he appears to favor the will of the gods above decrees of state. Even when Oedipus says that, once dethroned, he must be exiled, Creon waits for the approval of the gods to carry out the order once he has been crowned king.
Creon orders Antigone buried alive in a tomb. Although Creon has a change of heart, due to a visit from soothsayer Tiresias, and tries to release Antigone, he finds she has hanged herself. Creon's son Haemon, who was engaged to Antigone, commits suicide with a knife, and his mother Queen Eurydice also
Antigone of Troy (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is a minor figure in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the Trojan king Laomedon and the sister of Priam. [1] The meaning of the name is, as in the case of the masculine equivalent Antigonus, "worthy of one's parents" or "in place of one's parents ...
Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year.
Polynices' sister Antigone announces her intention to defy Creon and bury her brother, begins the burial, is discovered by guards and arrested, sentenced to death by Creon, and hangs herself. [100] Discounting the probably spurious scene in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes , Sophocles' play is our earliest source for any involvement of Antigone ...
Sophocles [a] (c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.
Antigone enters, lamenting the fate of her brothers; Oedipus emerges from the palace and she tells him what has happened. After he has a little while to mourn, Creon banishes him from the country and orders Eteocles but not Polynices to be buried in the city. Antigone fights him over the order and breaks off her engagement with his son Haemon ...
Antigone on the side of Polynices, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, 1868. In Greek mythology, Polynices (also Polyneices) (/ ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ n aɪ s iː z /; Ancient Greek: Πολυνείκης, romanized: Polyneíkes, lit. 'manifold strife' or 'much strife' [1]) was the son of Oedipus and either Jocasta or Euryganeia and the older brother of ...