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  • n  (Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus
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  • Seamus Heaney in Playbill.com
    Heaney wrote in the Guardian in 2005, "Early in 2003 we were watching a leader, a Creon figure if ever there was one: a law and order bossman trying to boss the nations of the world into uncritical agreement with his edicts in much the same way as...
  • Derek Walcott in Times Online
    Walcott added: "And our Creon will be wearing a suit. The suit is a lethal thing now. In Hollywood they talk about the suits and look at these dictators in their suits!" "It is more that I would like to think myself as more Sophoclean in...

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