So Kreon ruled now in Thebe.
Antigone was
promised to a son of Kreon, Haimon.
As Antigone returned and saw
Polyneikes
on the battlefield covered by birds
that started to eat him, she couldn't stand anymore and symbolically put some hands of earth above his body as a funeral. Naturally
it was her brother. However, Kreon hated Polyneikes
so much that he condemn her to death.
Haimon plead for
her and finally the King changed his mind and changed
the penalty to lifelong. She will not die, he
said, but she would never be free. And so he locked
her up in a tower without windows and with just a fissure big enough
to give her water and bread.
Here
appears Teiresias, the blind foreteller,
who gave
the king an advice: to put the dead under earth and let the survivor be
free or else the curse of Oedipus would pass on all
his descendants.
So
Kreon started to hesitate and opened the dungeon of Antigone. Haimon
had thought he would never experience this moment and was really really happy, but as
they opened the dungeon, Antigone found the death by hanging.
As Haimon saw this he committed suicide with his own sword.
When his mother saw her own son covered in blood she jumped down from the
highest point of the castle. A total disaster
for the end of the story. From this moment, Kreon
lived really unhappy and not in vane he made
himself many accusations.
Kadmos / Oedipus
