Creon
Crĕon, ōnis, m. , ¶ 1 montagne de lʼîle de Lesbos : Plin. 5, 140 ¶ 2 v. Creo.
- 1. koning v. Thebe, broer v. Iocaste;
- 2. koning v. Corinthe, vader v. Creüsa.
Creon
(Κρέων). (1) King of Corinth, and father of Creüsa or Glaucé, the wife of Iason. (See Creüsa; Medea.)
(2) The brother of Iocasté, mother and wife of Oedipus. (See Oedipus.) He ascended the throne of Thebes after Eteocles and Polynices had fallen in mutual combat, and gave orders that the body of the latter should be deprived of funeral rites, on which circumstance is founded the plot of the Antigone of Sophocles. See Antigoné; Eteocles; Polynices; Seven Against Thebes.
Creon
Creon, king of Corinth
- betroths his daughter Glauce to Jason: Apollod. 1.9.27
- brings up two children of Alcmaeon: Apollod. 3.7.6
- purifies Amphitryon: Apollod. 2.4.6
- helps him in the war on the Teleboans (Taphians): Apollod. 2.4.6, Apollod. 2.4.7
- marries his daughters to Herakles and Iphicles: Apollod. 2.4.11
- father of Megara: Apollod. 2.7.8
- son of Menoeceus, succeeds Laius as king of Thebes: Apollod. 3.5.7
- son of Menoeceus, regent of Thebes for Laodamas: Paus. 1.39.2, Paus. 9.5.13, Paus. 9.10.3
- his son Haemon devoured by the Sphinx: Apollod. 3.5.8
- promises the kingdom to him who should read the riddle of the Sphinx: Apollod. 3.5.8
- father of Menoeceus: Apollod. 3.6.7
- father of Lycomedes: Paus. 10.25.6, and of Henioche and Pyrrha: Paus. 9.10.3
- succeeds to the kingdom of Thebes: Apollod. 3.6.8
- casts out the Argive dead unburied: Apollod. 3.6.8
- buries Antigone alive: Apollod. 3.6.8
- Apollod. 2.7.7