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| | Eurydike (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant |
 | | Kreon became king of the city of Thebes after the two sons of Oedipus, Polynikes (Polynices) and Eteokles (Eteocles), were killed in battle; Kreon refused to give Polynikes a proper burial and imprisoned Oedipus’ daughter, Antigone, in a cave when she disobeyed his command and gave Polynikes a proper burial. |
 | | Kreon then decided to free Antigone but before he could free her, she had already killed herself; Kreon’s son, Haemon, tried unsuccessfully to kill his father and then, in desperation, killed himself; when Eurydike heard of her son’s death, she too committed suicide. |
 | | In the poem, Shield of Herakles (Heracles) by Hesiod, Kreon’s wife is said to be Eniokhe (Enioche); since Hesiod predates Sophokles we should assume that Eniokhe was, in fact, the name of king Kreon’s wife. |
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