Eurydice of Thebes

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In Greek mythology, Eurydice (Greek: ????????, E?rudík?), sometimes called Henioche, was the wife of Creon, a king of Thebes. She appears briefly in Sophocles' Antigone (as an "archetypal grieving, saddened mother" and an older counterpart to Antigone), to kill herself after learning, from a messenger, that her son Haemon and his betrothed, Antigone, have both committed suicide. She thrusts a sword into her heart and curses Creon for the death of her two sons: Haemon and Megareus. Haemon killed himself because his father Creon had unjustly killed Antigone, to whom he was engaged.

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• List of Greek mythological figures

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