The action unfurls not in ancient Thebes, said Sarah Hemming in the Financial Times, but in a modern-day suburban home, where King Creon is Chris, his niece Antigone is Annie, and her sister ...

After this civil war, King Creon, Antigone’s uncle, forbids citizens from burying Polyneices: an insult to his memory, but ...

defied the order of King Creon, her uncle, by scattering earth on the rotting corpse of her slain brother Polyneices, with the full knowledge that the penalty for so doing was death. But the ...

Antigone then defies the new king, Creon, by burying her brother Polynices, who is deemed a traitor and forbidden from receiving a proper burial. Her act of defiance leads to her imprisonment and ...

That Oedipus killed King Laius and the resulting plague is due to his trangressions. Oedipus does not believe Teiresias and feels that Creon, Jocasta's brother, is behind this. A curse has taken a ...

Creon Butler joined Chatham House from the Cabinet Office where he served as director for international economic affairs in the National Security Secretariat and G7/G20 ‘sous sherpa’, advising on ...

Jocasta enters to end the argument between Oedipus and Creon. When she asks why they were ... Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined ...

Creon Butler leads the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House. He joined the institute in 2019, since when he has written and published on a wide range of global economic policy issues, ...