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Eteocles is buried with military honors in "Antigone" by Sophocles "(495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, Eteocles and Polyneices, twin brothers and Theban princes, kill each other in a fight over the Theban crown and throne. Their uncle, King Creon, is next in the line of royal succession. Because Eteocles dies in defense of Thebes, his divinely sanctioned rights to a below-groundburial, funeral rites and military honors are respected.Because Polyneices dies in defense of his legitimate royal claims but in offense against Thebes, his rights are not respected and his body is left above ground and exposed to the ravages of weather and wildlife.

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