Out of despair, Haemon and Creon’s wife have by now also killed themselves, and Creon is left in distress and sorrow. Creon finally relents, but in an instance of too-late-timing, finds her dead in her jail cell. After the brief introduction (lines 475- 485), the. Meanwhile, not realizing Antigone has taken her own life, the blind prophet Teiresias, Creon's son and Antigone's fiancé Haemon, and the Chorus plead with Creon to release her. In Greek mythology, Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta. When Creon locks her away in prison, she kills herself. Antigone defies the law, buries her brother, and is caught. Eteocles has been given a proper burial, but Creon, Antigone's uncle who has inherited the throne, has issued a royal edict banning the burial of Polyneices, who he believes was a traitor. Oedipus has just passed away in Colonus, and Antigone and her sister decide to return to Thebes with the intention of helping their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, avoid a prophecy that predicts they will kill each other in a battle for the throne of Thebes.īut upon her arrival in Thebes, Antigone learns that both of her brothers are dead.

Antigone picks up in the same (uber-dismal) place that Oedipus at Colonus leaves off. Antigones two brothers, Polynices and Eteocles, had fought a battle for the sake of the kingship of Thebes.