Small Blue Eyes In His Enlarged Eyeballs

After a while when Oedipus met the oracle, this time we will be guests to another tragic story in which this time is directly linked to Antigone, the daughter or the sister of Oedipus… but also the niece of the new King of Thebes - Creon. 

 

After the conflict between Oedipus’s two sons Eteocles and Polynices, and after they died, Creon became the king, the new ruler of Thebes. 

 

Creon gives Eteocles a full and honorable burial, but orders (under penalty of death) that Polynices' corpse be left to rot on the battlefield as punishment for his treason. Such state of non-burial was considered a frightening and terrible prospect in the culture of ancient Greece. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who is betrothed to Creon's son Haemon, defies him by burying her brother, and is condemned to be entombed alive as punishment. Antigone tells Creon that it is the duty of the living to bury the dead and that if a body is not buried then the one who died will wander around in nowhere aimlessly for all eternity. Creon finally relents. However, when Creon arrives at the tomb where she was to be interred, Antigone has already hanged herself rather than be buried alive. And his son, Haemon, ends up taking his own life.

 

Our story starts in that small cellar where Creon sees the dead bodies of his son and his niece… and starts with a great regret!