Following a bloody civil war between the sons of Oedipus, King Creon decrees that Polyneices must remain unburied as a traitor. His sister Antigone defies the royal edict to uphold divine law,...
Following the exile of King Oedipus, his sons Eteocles and Polynices agreed to share the throne of Thebes by alternating power each year. However, Eteocles refused to step down after his term,...
After killing his half-brother Phocus on Aegina, the hero Peleus fled to the kingdom of Phthia in Thessaly. There, King Eurytion performed the sacred rites of purification, cleansing Peleus of...