CREON  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, son of Menoeceus, See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes after the See also:

• DEATH

death of Laius, the See also:

• HUSBAND

husband of his See also:

• SISTER

sister See also:

• JOCASTA

Jocasta . Thebes was then suffering from the visitation of the See also:

• SPHINX (Gr. Q¢lyyea', to draw tight, squeeze)

Sphinx, and Creon offered his See also:

• CROWN

crown and the See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand of the widowed See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen to whoever should solve the fatal riddle . See also:

• OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

Oedipus, the son of Laius, ignorant of his parentage, successfully accomplished the task and married Jocasta, his See also:

• MOTHER

mother . By her he had two sons, See also:

• ETEOCLES

Eteocles and Polyneices, who agreed after their See also:

• FATHER

father's death to reign in alternative years . Eteocles first ascended the See also:

• THRONE

throne, being the See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder, but at the end of the See also:

• YEAR

year refused to resign, whereupon his See also:

• BROTHER

brother attacked him at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of an See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army of Argives . The See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war was to be decided by a single combat between the See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers, but both See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell . Creon, who had resumed the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

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 See also:

• RITES

rites of sepulture, and that any one who infringed this See also:

• DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

decree should be buried alive . See also:

• ANTIGONE, (I)

Antigone, the sister of Polyneices, refused to obey, and sprinkled dust upon her brother's See also:

• CORPSE (Lat. corpus, the body)

corpse . The threatened See also:

• PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty was inflicted; but Creon's See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime did not See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape unpunished . His son, Haemon, the See also:

• LOVER, SAMUEL (1797-1868)

lover of Antigone, killed himself on her See also:

• GRAVE

grave; and he himself was slain by See also:

• THESEUS

Theseus . According to another See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account he was put to death by Lycus, the son or descendant of a former ruler of Thebes (See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides, Herc . See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

Fur .

31; See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii . 5, 7; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias ix . 5) .