person
Creon
King of Thebes and father of Megara, killed by the usurper Lycus before the play opens.
Reading notes
- Hercules (Mad) §266 the last stock of noble Cadmus
Creon, last of Cadmus's royal line, killed by Lycus; his death has left Thebes beneath a sordid yoke.
- Hercules (Mad) §508 Shades of Creon
Megara invokes her dead father Creon among the doomed Theban dead.
- Oedipus §205 Creon
Brother of Jocasta; sent to Delphi, he returns with the oracle's demand.