Megareus (son of Creon)

Megareus ( Greek Μεγαρεύς ) is a figure from Greek mythology .

He was a son of Creon and Eurydice and one of the defenders of the city in Aeschylus ' tragedy Seven against Thebes . While in other variants of the myth the son of Creon is called Menoikeus and because of a prediction by the seer Teiresias , according to which the voluntary death of a Theban would save Thebes, throws himself from the city wall before the actual battle for the city, Megareus becomes Aeschylus divided as defender of the third gate of the seven- gate Thebes and fell in battle. In the Antigone of Sophocles , the fate of Megareus remains in the dark, since the handwritten tradition does not confirm with certainty the sacrificial death of Megareus, which Eurydice lamented.

swell

Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 474
Sophocles, Antigone 1303

literature

Adolf Schirmer : Megareus 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2547 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ See for example Christiane Zimmermann: The Antigone myth in ancient literature and art. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 9783823348641 , p. 146; Reginald Gibbons, Charles Segal (transl.): Sophocles: Antigone. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 9780199728497 , p. 178 f.

[1] See for example Christiane Zimmermann: The Antigone myth in ancient literature and art. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 9783823348641 , p. 146; Reginald Gibbons, Charles Segal (transl.): Sophocles: Antigone. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 9780199728497 , p. 178 f.