Haemon

Haemon in Wikipedia

According to Sophocles' play Antigone (Sophocles), Haemon ("bloody") (or Haimon, Greek :Άιμον Haimon) was the son of Creon and Eurydice. When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who both agreed to alternate the throne every year. However, they showed no concern for their father, ...

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Haemon in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

3. A son of Creon of Thebes, perished, according to some accounts, by the sphinx. (Apollod. 3.5.8; Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 1760.) But, according to other traditions, he survived the war of the Seven against Thebes, and he is said to have been in love with Antigone, and to have made away with himself on hearing that she was condemned by his fat...

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