ARGUMENT.
After the death of Œdipus, Antigone and Ismene returned to Thebes, and
lived in the king's house with Eteocles, their brother. But the seven
great captains from Argos, whom Polyneikes had called to help him,
came against Thebes to destroy it, and were hardly driven back. And
the two brothers having died by each other's hands, the people of the
city made Creon their king, as being wise and prudent, and next of
kin to the dead; and he issued his decree that Eteocles should be
buried with due honour, but that no man should dare to bury
Polyneikes, who had come purposing to lay waste the city and all
the temples of the Gods.
