A short argument of this Tragedy.
Eteocles and Polynices sonnes
to Oedipus by that incestuous
marriage with his mother Iocasta, hauing staine each other in a
single combate, Creon is crowned King of
Thebes. Creon denyes to the Argiue bodies
funerall rites, which among the heathen, was
therefore esteemed a cruell punishment, because
they thought the soules of them, that were vnburied, wandered an hundred yeares before
they could be transported by Charon into Elysium.
Aemon the sonne of King Creon falling
in loue with Antigone, the pious daughter
of Oedipus, cannot obtaine his fathers
consent to mary her. Antigone, contrary to the
Kings command, goes by night to bury the
body of her brother Polynices, and there
meetes with Argia the widow of Polynices,
and daughter to king Adrastus. They are surprised:
Aemon attempting their rescue is
wounded, and lyes a while conceal'd. Antigone
by Creon is doomed to death. Aemon killeth
himselfe. Theseus killeth Creon, and giueth
funerall to the Græcians bodyes.
