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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. Learning of Creon’s proclamation, Oedipus decided to face the Sphinx, and of course, he was able to give the correct answer to the riddle, for Oedipus answered “man”, for as a babe, man crawls on all fours, as an adult walks on two feet, and when elderly uses a staff, or walking stick, as a third leg.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. Those that gave an incorrect answer would be killed by the beast.Ĭreon, brother of Jocasta, who was acting as regent of Thebes, made a promise that whoever rid Thebes of the Sphinx would become king of Thebes, and also would have Jocasta as his wife. The Sphinxcould not be harmed by mortal weapon, and the only way to banish her was to answer her riddle - "Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?" Thebes was a city in strife, for their king was dead, and the monstrous Sphinx was ravaging the land. ​Not knowing that he had killed the king of Thebes, for Polyphontes and Laius were both strangers to Oedipus Oedipus travelled on and eventually came to Thebes.