Theban Queen Jocasta comes to make peace between Theban King Oedipus and Theban King Creon. She has personal and professional reasons for her peace making efforts.
Personally, she's related closely to both men. Oedipus is her husband, and Creon her brother.
Professionally, all three are lateral colleagues on the job. All three are involved in a joint power sharing arrangement whereby the rule over Thebes and its citizens is in their three sets of hands. Jocasta realizes that disagreement is disastrous for three people who are close relatives and close colleagues in overlapping personal and work spaces.
Oedipus has sent Creon to consult the Delphic Oracle.
Haemon Creon's son
choragus
The Elders, who are the community's wise men, are those whom Theban King Creon assembles in the beginning of the first scene. He makes decisions on his own as the ruler of Thebes. But he needs to keep the Elders informed of his decisions, after if not before the fact.
It is as the victor that the chorus sees Creon at the beginning of the first scene in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the chorus gathers because they have a royal summons. They know that information will be shared. They look forward to hearing what Creon has to say since he is on the winning side of the first civil war over the Theban royal succession.
Creon exerts authority over Oedipus.
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choragus
council of elders
The Elders, who are the community's wise men, are those whom Theban King Creon assembles in the beginning of the first scene. He makes decisions on his own as the ruler of Thebes. But he needs to keep the Elders informed of his decisions, after if not before the fact.
It is as the victor that the chorus sees Creon at the beginning of the first scene in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the chorus gathers because they have a royal summons. They know that information will be shared. They look forward to hearing what Creon has to say since he is on the winning side of the first civil war over the Theban royal succession.
Creon exerts authority over Oedipus.
to release Antigone
Jj
It is just one person whom Creon says have contempt and break his law in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban King Creon announces the statistic at the beginning of his interaction with his son Prince Haemon in the third scene. He identifies his niece Princess Antigone as the sole lawbreaker. He says that he must promise her to show that he means what he says and says what he means.
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Yes, Creon has a recognition scene in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, a recognition scene allows a character to face up to accidents, commissions, mistakes and omissions. It is foreshadowed by Theban King Creon's relenting on the non-burial of his nephew Polyneices and the capital punishment of his niece, Princess Antigone. It actually takes place when Creon acknowledges how everything that makes his life worth meaning is lost through his own stubbornness, poor choices and offensive acts.