Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . o theswiftness of his good horse Arion, whose sire was theruler of the waves. The sovereignty of Thebes devolved now on brother of Jocasta. He ordered the corpse of Eteo-cles to be buried with the usual rites and due honours,but he commanded, on pain of death, that the bodiesof Polynices and his fallen friends should remain un-buried, a prey to the fowls of the air. Antigone, the faithful daughter of CEdipus, promptedby her sisterly love, notwithstanding the interdict ofCreon, and the danger to which she exposed her hfe,stole out of th
Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . o theswiftness of his good horse Arion, whose sire was theruler of the waves. The sovereignty of Thebes devolved now on brother of Jocasta. He ordered the corpse of Eteo-cles to be buried with the usual rites and due honours,but he commanded, on pain of death, that the bodiesof Polynices and his fallen friends should remain un-buried, a prey to the fowls of the air. Antigone, the faithful daughter of CEdipus, promptedby her sisterly love, notwithstanding the interdict ofCreon, and the danger to which she exposed her hfe,stole out of the city in a moon-light night, and with herown hands covered the body of her brother with sand. Her disobedience to the command of the tyrant wasdiscovered, and she was condemned to die, by being bu-ried alive; but she prevented a public execution anda cruel death by strangUng herself. Hgemon, Creons son, who had tenderly loved thisvictim of his fathers cruelty, upon finding Antigonedead in her prison, plunged his sword in his breast: T^t^^ ^t/.. //r^iTf^r/ /0///f^/(^t^J/ 225 neither did Hsemoiis mother survive the loss of herbeloved son. Thus stood Creon, bereft of all those whohad been related to him by the sacred ties of nature,accusing his destiny ! In the mean time Adrastus had soUcited the assist-ance of Theseus, who conquered Thebes, and forced theinhabitants to surrender all the slain bodies that be-longed to the army of Adiastus, in order to their inter-ment with solemn funeral rites. The misfortunes by which this war had been accompanied, were insuincient to exting-uish the enmity whichsubsisted among the sons of the fallen heroes. Tenyears after it burst forth in a new war, which, from itsbeing carried on by the descendants of the former leaders,was called the war of the Epigones. Creon was succeeded on the throne of Thebes byLaodamas, a son of Eteocles. Thersander, the son ofPolynices, assisted by the sons of those heroes who hadbeen slain in the former war, together
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