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	Antigone Book Notes Summary by Sophocles: Major Characters
		After the deaths of both Theban princes, Polyneices and Eteocles, Creon claims the throne for himself because he is the former queen's brother.
		His first edict forbids burial to Polyneices or any of the other soldiers who attacked Thebes; after Antigone disobeys this law he sentences her to death and at first plans to kill Ismene as well, until the Chorus reminds him that she is innocent.
		Although Polyneices is next in line to rule Thebes, Eteocles claims the throne for himself with the support of Creon and exiles his brother.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/ant/CHR.htm (1290 words)

	House of Thebes
		Genealogy: House of Thebes and the Houses of Seers.
		Eteocles and Polyneices were the sons of Oedipus and Jocasta.
		At the death of Polyneices and Eteocles, Creon again became regent, this time, for Laodamas, the young son of Eteocles.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/thebes.html (4334 words)

	Eteocles - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Eteocles, however, refused to keep the agreement, and Polyneices fled to Adrastus, king of Argos, whom he persuaded to undertake the famous expedition against Thebes on his behalf.
		The Theban rulers decreed that only Eteocles should receive the honour of burial, but the decree was set at naught by Antigone, the sister of Polyneices.
		The fate of Eteocles and Polyneices forms the subject of the Seven against Thebes of Aeschylus and the Phoenissae of Euripides.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Eteocles (130 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Antigone Study Guide
		Polyneices was the upstart, a returning exile, and he brought an invading army against the city.
		She is convinced that burying Polyneices is not only imprudent because of law, but impossible because of logistics.
		This attachment to martyrdom may be part of her motivationÂalthough clearly, she is also motivated both by a love for her brother and by the conviction that divine law has been disobeyed.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/antigone/section3.html (2268 words)

	Dogpile Web Search: Polyneices
		Polyneices were the sons of Oedipus and Jocasta.
		Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack...
		Polyneices laments that Oedipus does not respond to his arrival at all,...
	www.dogpile.com /info.dogpl/search/web/Polyneices/-/-/1/-/-/-/1/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/302349/right (339 words)

	Creon Polyneices
		Polyneices is killed in the battle and left to rot on the battlefield.
		Creon vs. Antigone in the burial of Polyneices
		Creon ordered that Polyneices body be left out to be eaten by vultures andwhile dogs because Polyneices rebelled against his brother Esteocles rule in...
	www.directessays.com /essay_search/Creon_Polyneices.html (681 words)

	Oedipus at Colonus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Polyneices wants an audience with Oedipus and Antigone thinks there's no harm in at least hearing what he has to say.
		Polyneices is responsible for the shabby vision of his father that now strikes him as lamentable.
		Polyneices extracts a promise from Antigone that she'll provide the proper rites when it comes time for his burial.
	www.wsu.edu /%7Edelahoyd/oedipus_colonus.html (334 words)

	ANTIGONE: Summary of the play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Her two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, were supposed to reign jointly as kings of Thebes after their father, Oedipus the King, dies.
		So, after he gives a great state funeral and high honors to the dead Eteocles, he decrees that PolyneicesÕ corpse must rot in the open and be picked at by predatory animals and birds in retribution for his treachery in attacking his own city.
		She is the sister of Eteocles and Polyneices and she sides with the wronged brother.
	www.rit.edu /~423www/performing_arts/99season_info/antigone/antisum.html (400 words)

	Antigone Summary
		Eteocles, the chosen king, had fought with his usurping brother Polyneices and their uncle, Creon, decides to honor the body of the former while denying the latter an honorable burial.
		Polyneices’ body is left to rot outside the walls of the city where birds can pick at the flesh of the corpse.
		In Ancient Greek beliefs, not having a proper burial meant that Polyneices’ spirit would be left to wander the earth and not able to descend into Hades.
	www.shvoong.com /books/1456-antigone (426 words)

	Ethics of Greek Theatre by Sanderson Beck
		He explains that Polyneices must not be buried, because the wicked must not be honored.
		Polyneices has come from Argos, where he has organized a rebellion against his brother in Thebes, but Antigone must persuade her father even to talk with the traitor.
		Polyneices argues that he was unjustly banished; he has married the daughter of Adrastus and formed an expedition of seven noble warriors against his brother.
	www.san.beck.org /EC20-GreekTheatre.html (20292 words)

	Kim Hattle, "Until Death Do Us Part" (student paper)
		Antigone asks for Ismene’s help to bury Polyneices, and when Ismene says she cannot, Antigone fires back with “You may do as you like, since apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you” (1427).
		Polyneices would be buried properly and Antigone and Haimon could be married instead of dying tragically.
		After all, Polyneices was her brother and she still had a loyalty to him.
	www.siue.edu /~ejoy/eng111StudentPaperHattle.htm (1543 words)

	Seven Against Thebes
		Polyneices' shield had a lion to represent his father's expulsion of the Sphinx, part-lion part-woman creature.
		Note that Polyneices and Tydeus were foreigners; they were not counted as two of the seven Argive champions by most writers, though they took a very active role in the war.
		Polyneices was the father of Thersander, while Tydeus of Diomedes.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/seven.html (2741 words)

	Schoolbytes: Antigone
		Polyneices is one of Antigone’s brothers; Eteocles is Antigone’s other brother.
		Polyneices fought against Thebes, and Creon wants to leave his body in a field and let dogs eat the corpse.
		The Chorus advises Creon to free Antigone and bury Polyneices.
	www.schoolbytes.com /summary.php?id=15 (1264 words)

	Oedipus-Story Outline
		Oedipus is received at Thebes as a national hero, and invited to marry the recently widowed queen Jocasta.
		The elder brother Eteocles refuses to resign the kingship to Polyneices at the end of the first year of the Royal Condominium.
		Polyneices, who accepts the curse and the inevitability of his death, asks his sister Antigone (who is also his aunt) to be sure that he is given a proper burial.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/oedstory.html (942 words)

	Theban kings - Greek mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polyneices and Eteocles made a pact that each should rule alternately for one year at a time.
		Polyneices fled to the court of King Adrastus of Argos to raise an army against his brother; the subsequent war became known as the "Seven Against Thebes"".
		As a son of Menoeceus and Iocaste's brother, Creon was uncle to Polyneices and Eteocles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theban_kings_-_Greek_mythology (1209 words)

	Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Later on in his speech, Polyneices asserts that the same gods who uphold the sanctity of oaths uphold the justice of his claim to kingship (491–3); his “word of truth” (469), based as it is on divine sanction, conveys its meaning univocally and clearly, without slippage, distortion, or artifice.
		Whereas Polyneices assumes that the gods both define and dispense truth and justice, Eteocles claims that meaning is constructed by human beings in the political arena, through the “two-sided strife” of argument, debate, philosophical discussion, and so on.
		Polyneices’ concept of a simple logos that conveys transcendent truth does not reflect the complexity and ambiguity of divine pronouncements and signs as they are generally represented in archaic Greek culture.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521858739&ss=exc (2237 words)

	Thebes Times - Family Section
		Creon found his role as a King so much more important than his role of a father in a royal family, making a proclamation which said that Polyneices was to be left out to spend the rest of his spiritual unburied life.
		Creon said: "Polyneices, he who came from exile breathing fire against this city of his fathers and it's shrines; The man who came all thirsting for his country's blood to drag the rest of us away as slaves— I've sent the edict out".
		Polyneices wanted to be the King so badly that he would do anything to get it, including betrayal.Oedipus’s daughter, Antigone loved her brothers, she wanted them both to die with dignity.
	www.ellatha.com /antigone/family.html (416 words)

	Antigone Polyneices
		Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has proclaimed that Antigones brother Polyneices is not to be buried because he fought against Creon in the civil war of...
		When Antigone learns that her brother, Polyneices will not be allowed an honorable burial she asks her sister, Ismene to join her in burying him.
		Polyneices, Antigones brother, went against the city of Thebes by provoking a war with enemies of the Thebians.
	www.megaessays.com /essay_search/Antigone_Polyneices.html (685 words)

	Phoenician Women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Patriotism is a significant theme in the story, as Polyneices talks a great deal about his love for the city of Thebes but has brought an army to destroy it; Creon is also forced to make a choice between saving the city and saving the life of his son.
		She explains that after her husband blinded himself upon discovering that he was her son, his sons Eteocles and Polyneices locked him away in hopes that the people might forget what had happened.
		She converses with Polyneices about what his life in exile was like, and then listens to both of their arguments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoenician_Women (748 words)

	Free Essays - Antigone
		When the play opens, Antigone is speaking with her sister, Ismene, about Creon's (present king of Thebes) decree that Polyneices be denied a burial.
		Polyneices' body will be put into the fields, unburied, as punishment for his attack on Thebes.
		Antigone is not concerned with the punishment of death that he (Creon) has promised to impose on anyone who dares defy his edict, because her death has been foretold by the gods.
	www.freeessays.tv /a3777.htm (873 words)

	Slashdoc - a world lit only by fire
		When Polyneices and Eteocles grew older they allowed their Uncle Creon to continue to rule because of the dishonor, which had been caused by their father.
		Polyneices felt he should be the ruler because he was the eldest.
		Polyneices was not to be given a proper funeral but left out in the open for animals to eat and carry off.
	www.slashdoc.com /documents/36618 (901 words)

	Antigone Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Creon announced an edict which said that Polyneices was to be left out to spend the rest of his spiritual life, unburied.
		Creon said: "Polyneices, he who came from exile breathing fire against this city of his fathers and it's shrines; The man who came all thirsting for his country's blood to drag the rest of us away as slaves I've sent the edict out" (pg.
		Polyneices believed that family was important but, authority was more important.
	www.beaconschool.org /~mcutler/RevisedAntigoneEssay.html (486 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Phoenissae by Euripides
		Polyneices my son, speak first, for thou art come at the head of a Danaid host, alleging wrongful treatment; and may some god judge betwixt us and reconcile the trouble.
		Again, if Polyneices win the day and his Argive warriors rout the ranks of Thebes, thou wilt see this city conquered and many a captive maid brutally dishonoured by the foe; so will that wealth thou art so bent on getting become a grievous bane to Thebes; but still ambition fills thee.
		Thy own son Polyneices led the battle 'gainst the Fountain gate; upon his shield for blazon were the steeds of Potniae galloping at frantic speed, revolving by some clever contrivance on pivots inside the buckler close to the handle, so as to appear distraught.
	classics.mit.edu /Euripides/phoenissae.html (7681 words)

	Free Essay Oedipus: Hubris - Antigone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Polyneices then became king of a neighboring city and the two brothers fought each other.
		The irony in the play was Creon’s thoughts of not burying Polyneices because he was the enemy.
		Meanwhile, the reader is wondering why Creon is so obsessed with torturing Polyneices besides the fact that Creon is too proud to admit his mistake.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25629 (1013 words)

	The Phoenician Maidens
		Polyneices: The worst is this: right of free speech does not exist.
		Polyneices: One finds it pays to deny nature and be a slave.
		So this is the nature of Polyneices’ suffering at the hands of his brother, Eteocles.
	www.greek-myth.com /Mythology/phoenician_maidens.htm (1058 words)

	Antigone Versus Socrates in the Crito
		Creon believes that Polyneices’ body shall be condemned to this because of his civil disobedience and treachery against the city.
		Polyneices’ sister, Antigone, upon hearing this exclaims that an improper burial for Polyneices would be an insult to the Gods.
		Creon calls the rotting of Polyneices’ body an “obscenity” because he believes that burial of the dead is a necessity of human law and not of a citizen.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxMzoyOjE&request=72972 (254 words)

	123Student
		Antigone, the sister of Polyneices and Esteocles, thought it was wrong that Esteocles had a formal burial and Polyneices was left out to be eaten by wild dogs and vultures.
		Antigone then decided it was her duty to bury Polyneices, so she disobeyed Creon’s decree and covered Polyneices’ body with dirt and wine.
		Unfortunately, Antigone was caught in the act of burying Polyneices so, Creon sentenced her (his own sons finance) to be put into a stone vault, to die of starvation and for Polyneices’ body to be uncovered.
	www.123student.com /english/651.shtml (439 words)

	essays research papers -- Sophocles' Antigone
		Creon believes that Polyneices’ body shall be condemned to this because of his civil disobedience and treachery against the city.
		Polyneices’ sister, Antigone, upon hearing this exclaims that an improper burial for Polyneices would be an insult to the Gods.
		Creon calls the rotting of Polyneices’ body an “obscenity” because he believes that burial of the dead is a necessity of human law and not of a citizen.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=53454 (1671 words)

	Polyneices
		Polyneices was the son of Oedipus and his wife/mother Jocasta.
		Before the war began, however, Polyneices learned that he would succeed if he had the support of his father.
		By chance, the man leading the charge against Eteocles was Polyneices himself.
	dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Heroes/Oedipus/polyneices.htm (162 words)

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