Creon
quoted 17 times by 4 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Creon the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
13 quoted · 4 reported
17 neutralin the voice of Antigone 4 , Guard 3 , Chorus of Theban elders 2 , Haemon 2 , Messenger 2 , Theban Herald 2 , Ismene 1 , Theseus 1
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in the voice of Guard
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Antigone Sophocles 12 neutral 12 citations · 125 passages
The guard delivers direct speech reporting an event.
So she, too, when she saw the corpse bare, broke into a cry of lamentation and cursed with harsh curses those who had done it.
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in the voice of Theban Herald
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Suppliants Euripides 3 neutral 3 citations · 5 passages
The Theban herald directly speaks on his arrival, invoking Creon as the authority he represents.
To whom must I announce the message of Creon, who rules o’er the land of Cadmus, since Eteocles was slain by the hand of his brother Polynices, at the sevenfold gates of Thebes?
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in the voice of Messenger
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Medea Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation
Within his narrative, the Messenger reports Creon's own lamenting words over his daughter's body.
Anon came her hapless father unto the house, all unwitting of her doom, and stumbles o’er the dead, and loud he cried, and folding his arms about her kissed her, with words like these the while, O my poor, poor child, which of the gods hath destroyed thee thus foully?
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in the voice of Antigone
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 1 citation
Antigone's reply to Creon is presented in the text as a direct quoted speech from Sophocles' play.
In the Tragedy of the Suppliants, Euripides calls it the law of the Gods, and in the Antigone of Sophocles, the heroine makes the following reply to Creon, who had forbidden any one under pain of death, to give the rites of burial to Polynices, “A prohibition, like this, was not revealed by the supreme will, nor by that heaven-born justice, which has established those laws of respect for the dead:
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