How do Creon's responses to Teiresias show disrespect for the gods in 'Antigone'?

Answer 1

That he contradicts divine will and insults a divine representative is the way in which Creon's responses to Teiresias show disrespect for the gods in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet advises that Theban King Creon's edict of non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead offends the gods. He cautions that divine will guarantees to all Thebans below ground burials of the dead. Creon observes that he will persist in the enforcement of his edict no matter what the gods will. At the same time, he pulls out name calling even though Teiresias is favored by the gods in his astute predictions and skilled interpretation of ritual sacrifices.