After Creon’s nephews were both killed in battle with each other, he decreed that only the one fighting for the side of Thebes would be given a proper burial. This meant one of his nephews, Polynices, would be left to rot as a warning to traitors. In addition, Creon declared that anyone who were to try and bury Polynices’s would be put to death. This angered his niece, Antigone, who wanted a proper burial for both of her brothers. Antigone argued that it was the will of the gods for Polynices to be buried and Creon was obeying civil law above the law of the gods. “Yea, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, / And she who sits enthroned with gods below, / Justice, enacted not these human laws.” When it is suggested to Creon that Polynices’s burial was the work of the gods, he flew into a rage and threatened to torture the messenger if he did not find out who buried the body. …show more content…
The prophet warned that not burying Polynices would result in Creon losing his own son. Creon ignores this initially until finally giving in but it was too late, He had already let Antigone and Haemon die. To which his wife responded by killing herself. The CITIZENS OF THEBES filed a petition in the moral court against CREON, alleging, in part, that he willingly violated established laws of the Gods. The citizens of Thebes sided with Antigone over Creon. Hameon went to his father told him, “Know how the people mourn this maiden doomed / For noblest deeds to die the worst of deaths. / When her own brother slain in battle lay”. The people believed that Creon did not obey the