Eurydice

Also known as: Eurydicè · Family: Thebes · Role: wife of Creon · First appears: Sophocles, Antigone — Scene 1

Life events

• Eurydice kills herself after hearing of Haemon's death and curses Creon.(Sophocles, Antigone — Scene 5)
  • With: Haemon Megareus Creon
  • “Wounding herself to the heart, when she had heard The loud lamented death of Haemon here.”
• Creon accepts responsibility for the deaths of Haemon and Eurydice.(Sophocles, Antigone — Scene 5)
  • With: Creon Haemon
  • “I slew thee--I, O misery! I say the truth, 'twas I!”

Sophocles, Antigone — Scene 1

• married with Creon “EURYDICE, the Wife of Creon.”

Sophocles, Antigone — Scene 5

• child: Haemon (The corse is Haemon.) “The honoured mother of that corse, thy queen, / Is dead, and bleeding with a new-given wound.”
• child: Megareus “She with keen knife before the altar place / Closed her dark orbs; but first lamented loud / The glorious bed of buried Megareus, / And then of Haemon; lastly clamoured forth / The curse of murdered offspring upon thee.”
• enemies with Creon “The guilt of this and of the former grief By this dead lady was denounced on thee.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.