 In the final book, the Argive widows go to Athens to ask Theseus to force Creon to allow their husbands' burial while Argia, Polyneices' wife, burns him illicitly.Theseus musters an army and kills Creon.The "Thebaid" ends with an epilogue in which the poet prays that his poem will be successful, cautions it not to rival the "Aeneid", and hopes that his fame will outlive him.