Creon

Family: Theban · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.4

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Creon)

Life events

Creon forbids burial of the Argive dead and orders watchmen to enforce the decree.(Apollodorus, Library 3.7 · 📍 Thebes)
- With: Polynices
- “Having succeeded to the kingdom of Thebes , Creon cast out the Argive dead unburied, issued a proclamation that none should bury them, and set watchmen.”
Antigone secretly buries Polynices, and Creon orders her interred alive after discovering her.(Apollodorus, Library 3.7 · 📍 Thebes)
- With: Antigone Polynices
- “But Antigone, one of the daughters of Oedipus, stole the body of Polynices, and secretly buried it, and having been detected by Creon himself, she was interred alive in the grave.”

child: Megara “Hercules received from Creon his eldest daughter Megara”
protégé: Amphitryon “Amphitryon engaged to do so, and undertook an expedition against the Teleboans, and invited Creon to assist him.”
with Iphicles (interaction) “Creon gave his younger daughter to Iphicles”
with Amphitryon (interaction) “Amphitryon ... invited Creon to assist him”

child: Haemon “When many had perished, and last of all Creon's son Haemon”
protégé: Oedipus “Creon made proclamation that to him who should read the riddle he would give both the kingdom and the wife of Laius.”

child: Menoeceus “Menoeceus, son of Creon, would offer himself freely as a sacrifice to Ares.”

with Antigone (Creon caused Antigone to be buried alive.) “having been detected by Creon himself, she was interred alive in the grave”

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