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It is what Teiresias predicts and what the chorus leader advises that cause Creon to change his mind about the execution in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Teiresias the blind prophet announces that Theban King Creon's edict of non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead causes the pestilential environment and polluted altars in Thebes. Creon becomes angry, insulting and threatening until Teiresias says that the mourning that goes around Thebes will come back to devastate the royal household. Teiresias repeats the prediction to the chorus leader. The chorus leader says to do what Teiresias says: Bury Polyneices and free Antigone.

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