2. A son of Menoecus, and king of Thebes. After the death of Laius, Creon gave the kingdom
to Oedipus, who had delivered the country from the Sphinx; but after Oedipus had laid down the
government, Creon resumed it. His tyrannical conduct towards the Argives, and especially
towards Antigone, is well known from the Oedipus and Antigone of Sophocles. Creon had a son,
Haemon, and two daughters, Henioche and Pyrrha. (