Antigona
After Oedipus leaves Thebes, his sons Eteocles and Polynices kill each other in combat over the throne. Creon orders Eteocles buried with honor but forbids burial of Polynices. Their sisters Antigone and Ismene grieve; Antigone resolves to bury Polynices despite the decree. She cremates him at night, and Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s beloved, is wrongly arrested. Antigone admits responsibility and Creon orders her walled alive in a cave. Believing Haemon dead, Creon repents and reverses the sentence. Haemon reaches Antigone in the cave, and the lovers are rescued and married.