hether the first, as-yet unexplained burial of Polyneices might not be the work of the gods. Creon explodes, calling such an idea senseless, unendurable, wicked, and inconceivable. When Haemon, Antigone's fiancé, says that "a city that is one man's is no city," Creon replies that a city "is the king's. That much is sure," and that he will not "govern by another's judgment" (Ant. 686-88). He is especially sensitive to Tiresia's questioning of his judgment and accusaion of tyranny
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