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An edict on non-burial of the disloyal Theban dead is the law that Creon passes in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Creon issues a royal edict by which below ground burials are given only to Theban loyalists. Exposure above ground to weather and wildlife is the way in which the enemy Argive and the disloyal Theban dead bodies are to be treated. But Creon's edict contradicts divine guarantees to all Thebans of below ground burials and proper funeral rites.

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