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What to do about his law-breaking niece Antigone is the problem faced by Creon in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Theban King Creon issues an edict by which god-given rights to below-ground burials and funeral rites are respected for his nephew Eteocles and denied for his nephew Polyneices. Princess Antigone, Creon's niece and sister to the twin brothers, decides to break the law and thereby give Polyneices' body a proper Theban-style send-off to the Underworld of the afterlife. Breaking Creon's law carries the death penalty, but Antigone is not only Creon's niece but also his intended daughter-in-law as the beloved bride-to-be of his only surviving child, Prince Haemon.

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