Creon
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Creontem Proper-name noun: masculine accusative singular of Creon
- 1. koning v. Thebe, broer v. Iocaste;
- 2. koning v. Corinthe, vader v. Creüsa.
(Κρέων).
1. A mythical king of Corinth, a son of Lycaethus. (Hyg. Fab. 25, calls him a son of Menoecus, and thus confounds him with Creon of Thebes.) His daughter, Glauce, married Jason, and Medeia, who found herself forsaken, took vengeance by sending Glauce a garment which destroyed her by fire when she put it on. (Apollod. 1.9.28; Schol. ad Eurip. Med. 20.) According to Hyginus (l.c.) Medeia's present consisted of a crown, and Creon perished with his daughter, who is there called Creusa. (Comp. Diod. 4.54.)
2. A son of Menoecus, 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. (Apollod. 3.5.8, 7.1; Paus. 9.10.3.) A third mythical Creon is mentioned by Apollodorus. (2.7.8.) [L.S]
(Κρέων), a Greek rhetorician of uncertain date, who is mentioned in three passages of Suidas (s. vv. έγκεκορδυλημένος, νιδάριον, and φασκιόλιον) as the author of a work on rhetoric (ῥητορικά), of which the first book is quoted, but nothing further is known about him. [L.S]
(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.
- 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