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Definition of Creon
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creon
Literary usage of Creon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1906)
"Tiresias, the seer, warns Creon that the offended people will rage, that his
cities shall be ... Creon relents and gives orders for the burial of Polynices, ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"Creon — Men of my age — are we indeed to be schooled, then, by men of his ? ...
Creon — Shall Thebes prescribe to me how I must rule ? ..."
3. Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments by Sophocles (1891)
"The character of Creon, as Sophocles draws it in this Creon. play, ... According to
one view,*Creon is animated by a personal spite against both Polyneices ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Creon. The years would measure out a long, long tale. ... Creon. Of course we
held it, but we nothing heard. (Ecip. How was it he, the wise one, ..."
5. The Greek Tragic Theatre: Containing Æschylus by Dr. Potter, Sophocles by Dr by Michael Wodhull, Euripides (1809)
"'Tis a long time, O Creon, since your Sister Went hence ; ere now I deem the ...
Creon. Ah me ! an evil omen I behold In that deep gloom which overcasts the ..."
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