Creon
Family: Thebes · Role: ruler and regent · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 39
At the time Theseus defeated the Bœotians, Creon ruled Thebes as regent for Laodamas, son of Eteocles, and forbade the burial of the dead. After Adrastus appealed to Theseus, Theseus defeated the Bœotians and buried them at Eleusis.
When Polynices and Eteocles killed each other, the kingdom passed to Laodamas, and Creon, son of Menœceus, ruled as guardian for him. When Polynices and his army came from Argos, Menœceus voluntarily slew himself in accordance with the oracle at Delphi. Creon’s daughters were Henioche and Pyrrha, and Lycomedes was his son.
Relationship record
Life events
- Theseus defeated the Bœotians and buried the dead after Creon forbade their burial.(Book 1 · Chapter 39 · 📍 Eleusis)
- With: Adrastus Theseus
- “For Creon, who was at that time the ruler at Thebes (being Regent for Laodamas the son of Eteocles), would not allow their relations to bury the dead: and Adrastus having supplicated Theseus, and a battle having been fought between the Athenians and Bœotians, when Theseus was the victor, he conveyed the dead bodies to Eleusis and there buried them.”
- Polynices and Eteocles killed each other; Laodamas inherited, with Creon as guardian.(Book 9 · Chapter 5)
- With: Polynices Eteocles Laodamas
- “And on his return he quarrelled with Eteocles, and went into exile a second time. And having begged of Adrastus a force to restore him, he lost his army and challenged Eteocles to single combat. And he and his brother killed each other, and as the kingdom devolved upon Laodamas the son of Eteocles, Creon the son of Menœceus ruled as guardian for the boy.”
- Menœceus voluntarily slew himself in accordance with the oracle at Delphi.(Book 9 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Thebes)
Book 1 · Chapter 39
- ward: Laodamas “Creon, who was at that time the ruler at Thebes (being Regent for Laodamas the son of Eteocles)”
Book 9 · Chapter 5
- ward: Laodamas (Creon was guardian for Laodamas.) “Creon the son of Menœceus ruled as guardian for the boy”
- parent: Menœceus (father of Creon) (Parent-to-child direction.) “Creon the son of Menœceus”
Book 9 · Chapter 10
- child: Henioche “two stone statues, one they say of Henioche the other of Pyrrha, both daughters of Creon, who ruled as guardian of Laodamas the son of Eteocles.”
- child: Pyrrha “two stone statues, one they say of Henioche the other of Pyrrha, both daughters of Creon, who ruled as guardian of Laodamas the son of Eteocles.”
- ward: Laodamas “both daughters of Creon, who ruled as guardian of Laodamas the son of Eteocles.”
Book 9 · Chapter 25
- child: Menœceus “the tomb of Menœceus the son of Creon”
Book 10 · Chapter 25
- child: Lycomedes (son of Creon) “And next to Meges is Lycomedes the son of Creon, who is wounded on the wrist, as Lescheos says he was by Agenor.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.