![]() ![]() It was then that Amphitryon gave his sister Perimede as wife to Licymnius. Creon purified him, and received all three as exiles in Thebes. During this regency, Amphitryon arrived with his fiancée Alcmena and her half-brother Licymnius from Mycenae, seeking exile and purification for the death of his prospective father-in-law King Electryon, whom he accidentally had killed. ![]() Mythology First Regency Īfter the death of King Laius of Thebes by the hands of his own son Oedipus, Creon sat on the vacant throne and became the ruler of the kingdom. He is sometimes considered to be the same person who purified Amphitryon of the murder of his uncle Electryon and father of Megara, first wife of Heracles. ![]() Creon and his sister, Jocasta, were descendants of Cadmus and of the Spartoi. Ĭreon ( / ˈ k r iː ɒ n/ Ancient Greek: Κρέων, romanized: Kreōn, lit.'ruler' ), is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the ruler of Thebes in the legend of Oedipus.Ĭreon had four sons and three daughters with his wife, Eurydice (sometimes known as Henioche): Henioche, Pyrrha, Megareus (also called Menoeceus), Lycomedes and Haimon. A scene from the war of the Seven against Thebes: Capaneus scales the city wall of Thebes, Campanian red-figure neck-amphora attributed to the Caivano Painter, ca. ![]()
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