In the opening of the play, Antigone brings Ismene outside the palace gates late at night for a secret meeting: Antigone wants to bury Polyneices ' body, in defiance of Creon's edict.

Tiresias responds that because of Creon's mistakes, he will lose " a son of own loins " for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied and putting Antigone into the earth ( he does not say that Antigone should not be condemned to death, only that it is improper to keep a living body underneath the earth ).

It is revoked when Polyneices commits what in Creon's eyes amounts to treason.

She says to Ismene about Creon's edict, " He has no right to keep me from my own.

Antigone determines this to be unjust, immoral and against the laws of the gods, and is determined to bury her brother regardless of Creon's law.

Antigone responds with the idea that state law is not absolute, and that it can be broken in civil disobedience in extreme cases, such as honoring the gods, whose rule and authority outweigh Creon's.

Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who is betrothed to Creon's son, Haemon, defies him by burying her brother, and is condemned to be entombed alive as punishment.

Ismene tells her father that it is Creon's plan to come for him and bury him at the border of Thebes, without proper burial rites, so that the power which the oracle says his grave will have will not be granted to any other land.

Later in Thebes, Heracles married King Creon's daughter, Megara.

Antigone buries her brother by herself ; eventually Creon's guards discover this and capture her.

Antigone is brought before Creon, where she declares that she knew Creon's law but chose to break it, expounding upon the superiority of ' divine law ' to that made by man.

Sophocles ' Antigone ends in disaster, with Antigone hanging herself after being walled up, and Creon's son Haemon ( or Haimon ), who loved Antigone, killing himself after finding her body.

Haemon, Creon's son, enters to pledge allegiance to his father.

Eurydice, Creon's wife and Haemon's mother, enters and asks the Messenger to tell her everything.

Both Creon and Antigone show much pride which leads to their fates, with Creon's wife and son being killed and Antigone herself dying.

This turn of events will eventually lead to Creon's downfall.

In a search for the identity of the killer, Oedipus followed Creon's suggestion and sent for Tiresias, who warned him not to seek Laius ' killer.

The gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order, and he went to bury Polynices himself.

When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of the death of Haemon, she too took her own life.

Creon's wife sold Tisiphone into slavery, envious of her beauty.

Creon imprisoned Antigone in a sepulchre ; meanwhile the gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order.

When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of their deaths, she, too, took her own life.

The gods, through the blind prophet Tiresias, expressed their disapproval of Creon's decision, which convinced him to rescind his order, and he went to bury Polynices.

Creon's wife Eurydice, informed of Haemon's death, took her own life out of grief.

These actions cause Creon's madness at the play's conclusion.

When Creon's wife, Eurydice, is informed of Haemon's death she takes her own life out of grief and with her last breath curses Creon.

On 5 December 1719, with Philip V fast becoming the common enemy of all Europe, Alberoni was ordered to leave Spain, Elizabeth herself having taken an active part in procuring the decree of banishment.

Finally, in 1526, King Charles V issued a decree compelling all Muslims in the crown of Aragon to convert to Catholicism or leave the Iberian Peninsula ( Portugal had already expelled or forcibly converted its Muslims in 1497 and would establish its own Inquisition in 1536 ).

On March 1, Daza issued instead a decree which prohibited all commerce and communications with Chile " while the state-of-war provoked upon Bolivia lasts ," provided Chileans ten days to leave Bolivian territory unless gravely ill or handicapped, embargoed Chilean furniture, property, and mining produce, allowed Chilean mining companies to continue operating under a government-appointed administrator, and provided all embargoes as temporary " unless the hostilities exercised by Chilean forces requires an energetic retaliation from Bolivia.

Nonetheless, the decree of expulsion was signed in Palermo on 18 June 1492, giving the Jewish population of Malta and Sicily three months to leave.

Shortly thereafter, Black Bolt makes a decree that the Inhumans would return to Earth, leaving Ronan the Accuser in charge of the empire ; Crystal is given the choice to leave with the royal family or stay by her husband.

By direct application to Napoleon, Scharnhorst evaded the decree of 26 September 1810, which required all foreigners to leave the Prussian service forthwith, but when in 1811 – 1812 France forced Prussia into an alliance against Russia and Prussia despatched an auxiliary army to serve under Napoleon's orders, Scharnhorst left Berlin on unlimited leave of absence.

A decree of December 1954 allowed him to be handed over to authorities of the German Democratic Republic, who allowed him to leave for West Germany in 1958.

A history of political interference in papal selection and consequently long vacancies between popes, culminating in the interregnum of 1268 – 1271, prompted Pope Gregory X to decree during the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 that the cardinal electors should be locked in seclusion cum clave ( Latin for " with a key ") and not permitted to leave until a new Bishop of Rome had been elected.

He immediately expelled the Jews from Gascony, a province still held by England and in which he was travelling at the time ; and on his return to England ( July 18, 1290 ) he issued writs to the sheriffs of all the English counties ordering them to enforce a decree to the effect that all Jews should leave England before All Saints ' Day of that year.

There, Antigone openly refuses to abide by the rulers ' decree to leave her brother Polyneices ' body unburied, as punishment for his participation in the attack on Thebes, saying that " even if no one else is willing to share in burying him I will bury him alone and risk the peril of burying my own brother.

So in 681 he issued another decree, this time requiring that all Jews become Christians or leave the kingdom.

Because Creon is the person and a king taking rash actions in rage that he is, he will naturally decree that the body of the disloyal brother remain unburied, and will naturally demand absolute obedience to his decree.

The Sorbonne itself was suppressed by decree of 5 April 1792, after the French Revolution.

Use of " physical means of persuasion " ( torture ) was sanctioned by a special decree of the state, which opened the door to numerous abuses, documented in recollections of victims and members of the NKVD itself.

By a decree of 5 May 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter ( the Sunday after Easter Day itself ), is known also in the Roman Rite as Divine Mercy Sunday.

The term was originally coined for the golden seal itself but came to be applied to the entire decree.

Although everyday matters under direct rule were handled by government departments within Northern Ireland itself, major policy was determined by the British Government's Northern Ireland Office, under the direction of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ; and legislation was introduced, amended, or repealed by means of Order in Council ( effectively, rule by decree ).

On February 19, 1424, Basel was selected as the place of the next Council and the Council dissolved itself the following day ( the decree published March 7 ).

The decree specified that the city itself be destroyed.

This Bill, if enacted into law, would have enabled Government ministers to amend or repeal any legislation ( including the L & RR Bill itself ), subject to vague and highly subjective restraints, by decree and without recourse to Parliament.

The Emperor or the Senate itself could also issue a decree to grant a man not born into the Senatorial order a seat in the Senate.

A decree was publicized in the official newspaper on August 27, constituting itself in a way as the eighteenth municipal of surrounding the community.

He founded the American Broadcasting Company when he purchased the Blue Network in 1943 following the Federal Communications Commission's ( FCC ) decree that RCA divest itself of one of its two radio networks.

In May 1957, Fethard-on-Sea found itself embroiled in controversy related to the Ne Temere decree.

" In Turkey itself, through a decree issued by Prime Minister İsmet İnönü in January 1935, the book was banned.

Special Council of the USSR NKVD ( Особое Совещание при НКВД СССР, ОСО ) was created by the same decree of Sovnarkom of July 10, 1934 that introduced the NKVD itself.

The Scuola Normale Superiore was founded in 1810 by Napoleonic decree, as twin institution of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, itself dating back to the French Revolution jurisdiction.

It received town privileges around 1240 and a 1271 decree established " civitatis richenbach ", a recognized small city with autonomous rights to defend itself, trade and hold municipal elections.

It was specified that the Union's SNK resolution may only be overruled by the Union's TsIK or its Presidium, ( 16 ) and if a republican TsIK chooses to protest the resolution or a decree of the Union's TsIK, the protest itself does not halt the implementation of the document.

The Supreme Court found no fault in Gaviria's decree, and unprecedentedly declared that the future Constituent Assembly would be able to freely pronounce itself on all matters, except for international treaties and the duration of the period of those officials elected during 1990.

There is no doubt that the octoechos reform itself has taken place already in 692, because certain passages of the Hagiopolites are paraphrasing certain canons of the synodal decree.

The money itself is given value by government fiat ( Latin for " let it be done ") or decree, enforcing legal tender laws, previously known as " forced tender ", whereby debtors are legally relieved of the debt if they pay it in the government's money.