The regent Creon prevented this man's corpse from being touched, though it was eventually sprinkled with dust.
Later authors claim that this man received ill-will from his father after he and his younger brother used a forbidden silver table and golden cup, as well as sending his father the leg of a sacrificed animal rather than the shoulder. This figure's wife was a daughter of Amphithea, a princess of Argos named Argea, and this man's son Thersander was killed by Telephus while king of Thebes. After this man was expelled from his home city, he enlisted the help of such figures as Capaneus, Parthenopeus, and Adrastus, and he ultimately died at his brother's hands when they simultaneously threw spears at each other. The regent Creon prevented this man's corpse from being touched, though it was eventually sprinkled with dust. FTP, name this son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles, whose burial by his sister led to conflict in Sophocles' Antigone.
Later authors claim that this man received ill-will from his father after he and his younger brother used a forbidden silver table and golden cup, as well as sending his father the leg of a sacrificed animal rather than the shoulder.
Polynices