Creon

A son of Menoeceus, and king of Thebes. After the death of Laius, Creon gave the kingdom to Oedipus, who had delivered the country from the Sphinx; but after Oedipus had laid down the government, Creon resumed it. His tyrannical conduct towards the Argives, and especially towards Antigone, is well known from the Oedipus and Antigone of Sophocles.

Creon had a son, Haemon, and two daughters, Henioche and Pyrrha.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 10.3.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 5.8, 7.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.