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Creon

Cre·on [ kr òn ]


noun 
Definition:
 
king of Thebes: in Greek mythology, the brother of Jocasta and the successor of Oedipus as king of Thebes. He was also the uncle of Antigone and issued an edict forbidding the burial of the body of her brother Polynices, which she defied.

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