... . He does not know his engagement only earns him the right to die sooner. The Chorus then turns to the powerfully built Creon, king of Thebes. When he was younger, and Oedipus ruled, he was an art patron. The death of Oedipus and his sons bound him to the weary duties of rule. Next to the sisters' Nurse sits the good Queen Eurydice. She knits and will go on knitting ... cut her throat. Creon is alone. Creon tells the Page that while they do not know it, the truth is that the work has to be done. The Page should hope that he never grows up. He asks the time and it is five o'clock, and he ...

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... Pelias in their absence. Akastus, Pelias' son, banished them into exile. Jason's desire to reclaim his throne having been dashed for good, they now went to settle in Corinth. Creon, the King of Corinth, had no son to succeed him. He found in Jason a worthy husband for his only daughter Glauce. For Jason, it was yet another opportunity to reclaim his lost ... -killer Whose presence is pollution?-(881-3) In the social context, the Chorus duly warns her that the civilised Greeks of Athens would accept a woman who is guilt of killing her own children. There are also allusions to the Oedipal ...

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