Other Representations
Creon is also featured in Euripides's Phoenician Women, but not in Medea - the latter had a different Creon.
He is portrayed as a tyrant in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, and in a later adaptation of the same story, William Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's play The Two Noble Kinsmen. As in Antigone, he refuses to allow the burial of defeated enemies. His enemies' widows appeal to Theseus, who defeats Creon in battle. Though much discussed, he does not appear as a character in either version.
The Roman poet Statius recounts a differing version of Creon's assumption of power from that followed by Sophocles, in his late first century epic, the Thebaid. This alternate narrative may have been based on a previous epic of the Theban cycle written by the Greek poet Antimachus in the 4th or 5th century BC. Antimachus' work has been lost to us, but in any case the classic myths often had more than one variation and playwrights and poets had some freedom to choose or even innovate for dramatic effect.
In the play Welcome to Thebes, he is mentioned, as his widow Eurydice is now President of Thebes.
Seamus Heaney's 2004 play The Burial at Thebes includes a note from the writer comparing Creon's actions to those of the Bush administration.
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