Menoeceus

Family: Theban · Role: father of Creon · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.4

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

Life events

• Menoeceus sacrifices himself to Ares by killing himself before the gates.(Apollodorus, Library 3.6)
  • “On hearing that, Menoeceus, son of Creon, slew himself before the gates.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.4

• with Perieres (interaction) “a charioteer of Menoeceus, named Perieres”
• child: Perieres “a charioteer of Menoeceus, named Perieres”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• child: Jocasta “And he married a daughter of Menoeceus; some say that she was Jocasta, and some that she was Epicasta.”
• child: Epicasta “And he married a daughter of Menoeceus; some say that she was Jocasta, and some that she was Epicasta.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.6

• parent: Creon “Menoeceus, son of Creon, would offer himself freely as a sacrifice to Ares.”
• with Tiresias (interaction) “he said that they should be victorious if Menoeceus, son of Creon, would offer himself freely as a sacrifice to Ares.”
• with Ares (Menoeceus sacrificed himself to Ares.) “Menoeceus, son of Creon, slew himself before the gates.”

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