 In "Antigone", it is therefore natural that the people of Thebes did not bury the Argives, but very striking that Creon prohibited the burial of Polynices.Since he is a citizen of Thebes, it would have been natural for the Thebans to bury him.Creon is telling his people that Polynices has distanced himself from them, and that they are prohibited from treating him as a fellow-citizen and burying him as is the custom for citizens.