Creon

, king of Corinth, was son of Sisyphus. He promised his daughter Glauce to Jason, who repudiated Medea. To revenge the succe of her rival, Medea sent her for a present a gown covered with poison. Glauce put it on and was seized with sudden pains. Her body took fire, and she expired in the greatest torments. The house was also consumed by the fire, and Creon and his family shared Glauce’s fate. Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 ; bk. 3 , ch. 7 .— Euripi des , Medea .— Hyginus , fable 25.— Diodorus , bk. 4 .――A son of Menœtius father of Jocasta, the wife and mother of Œdip us. At the death of Laius, who married Jocasta, Creon ascended the vacant throne of Thebes. As the ravages of the Sphinx [ See: Sphinx ] were intolerable, Creon offered his crown and daughter in marriage to him who could explain the enigmas which the monster proposed. Œdip us was happy in his explanations, and he ascended the throne of Thebes, and married Jocasta without knowing that she was his mother, and by her he had two sons, Polynices and Eteocles. These two sons mutually agreed, after their father’s death, to reign in the kingdom each alternately. Eteocles first ascended the throne by right of seniority; but when he was once in power, he refused to resign at the appointed time, and his brother led against him an army of Argives to support his right. The war was decided by single combat between the two brothers. They both killed one another and Creon ascended the throne, till Leodamas the son of Eteocles should be of sufficient age to a ume the reins of government. In his regal capacity, Creon commanded that the Argives, and more particularly Polynices, who was the cause of all the bloodshed, should remain unburied. If this was in any manner disobeyed, the offenders were to be buried alive. Anti gone the sister of Polynices transgre ed, and was accordingly punished. Hæmon the son of Creon, who was pa ionately fond of Anti gone, killed himself on her grave, when his father refused to grant her pardon. Creon was afterwards killed by These us, who had made war against him at the request of Adrastus, because he refused burial to the Argives. See: Eteocles , Polynices , Adrastus , Œdip us . Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 56 , . — Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 39 ; bk. 9 , ch. 5 , . — Statius , Thebiad .— Sophocles , Anti gone .— Aeschylus , Seven Against Thebes .— Hyginus , fables 67 & 76.— Diodorus , bks. 1 & 4.――The first annual archon at Athens. 684 B.C. Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 8 .