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CREON , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Menoeceus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Thebes after the See also:death of Laius, the See also:husband of his See also:sister See also:Jocasta. Thebes was then suffering from the visitation of the See also:Sphinx, and Creon offered his See also:crown and the See also:hand of the widowed See also:queen to whoever should solve the fatal riddle. See also:Oedipus, the son of Laius, ignorant of his parentage, successfully accomplished the task and married Jocasta, his See also:mother. By her he had two sons, See also:Eteocles and Polyneices, who agreed after their See also:father's death to reign in alternative years. Eteocles first ascended the See also:throne, being the See also:elder, but at the end of the See also:year refused to resign, whereupon his See also:brother attacked him at the See also:head of an See also:army of Argives. The See also:war was to be decided by a single combat between the See also:brothers, but both See also:fell. Creon, who had resumed the See also:government during the minority of Leodamas, the son of Eteocles, commanded that the Argives, and above all Polyneices, the cause of all the bloodshed, should not receive the See also:rites of sepulture, and that any one who infringed this See also:decree should be buried alive. See also:Antigone, the sister of Polyneices, refused to obey, and sprinkled dust upon her brother's See also:corpse. The threatened See also:penalty was inflicted; but Creon's See also:crime did not See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape unpunished. His son, Haemon, the See also:lover of Antigone, killed himself on her See also:grave; and he himself was slain by See also:Theseus. According to another See also:account he was put to death by Lycus, the son or descendant of a former ruler of Thebes (See also:Euripides, Herc. See also:Fur. 31; See also:Apollodorus iii. 5, 7; See also:Pausanias ix. 5).
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