Menœceus

Family: Thebes · Role: father of Creon · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 5

Life events

• Menœceus voluntarily slew himself in accordance with the oracle at Delphi.(Book 9 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Thebes)
  • With: Creon Polynices
  • “Menœceus the son of Creon, who voluntarily slew himself in accordance with the oracle at Delphi, when Polynices and his army came from Argos.”

Book 9 · Chapter 25

• parent: Creon “the tomb of Menœceus the son of Creon”

Also listed in Thebes — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.