Eurydice (wife of Creon)
Eurydice ( Greek Εὐρυδίκη ) is a female figure in Greek mythology . According to the tragedy Antigone by the Greek poet Sophocles , she was the wife of Creon , the regent of Thebes. After learning that her son Haimon had also killed himself because of the suicide of his fiancée Antigone , she cursed her husband Creon for the calamity he had inflicted on his family and stabbed himself to death. She had another son named Megareus , who was already dead when Eurydike decided to commit suicide because he sacrificed himself and fell from the city wall of Thebes.
Eurydice is also mentioned by an inscription on a fragmentarily preserved amphora depicting the Antigones legend. In other versions of the legend, the name of Creon's wife is not Eurydice, but Henioche .
literature
- Otto Kern : Eurydice 5). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1325.