... > klassinen mytologia ja antiikin historia > Kreikan sankaritarut (I) > the Theban wars: the Seven against Thebes and the Epigoni > the Seven against Thebes: the first Theban war > sequel to the first Theban war > Creon, king of Thebes, forbids the burial of the enemies' corpses > Antigone buries the body of her brother Polynices by night: she secretly throws a little dust over him, but is caught in the very act