Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Creon.
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The Wedding of Jason and Creusa
Master of the Die (after Baldassare Peruzzi), 16th century
A Metropolitan Museum print stages the Corinthian wedding Creon arranged for Jason and his daughter Creusa/Glauce — while Medea leads the children away at left. The king of Corinth is the host whose match will burn his house.
Medea, or the Marriage of Jason and Creusa
Rembrandt, 1648
Rembrandt's etching for Jan Six's Medea freezes Creon's court wedding: Jason and Creusa before the altar. The Corinthian king is the political force who replaces Medea with his daughter — not the Theban uncle of Antigone.
Medea Sarcophagus (Berlin)
Unknown (Roman), c. 140–150
Roman sarcophagus in Berlin: Medea's poisoned gifts reach Creusa — the death that Euripides and Apollodorus extend to Creon himself when he clasps his burning daughter. Corinth's king as collateral of the Argonaut divorce.
Medea Sarcophagus (Terme)
Unknown (Roman), 2nd century
Another Roman Medea sarcophagus (Museo Nazionale Romano): the Corinthian catastrophe in marble — wedding gifts, fire, and the royal household Creon cannot save.
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Medea
Euripides
Euripides makes Creon the Corinthian king who banishes Medea and dies embracing Glauce as the poisoned gifts burn — the father-in-law Jason chose over Colchis.
Creon (king of Corinth)
King of Corinth and father of Glauce/Creusa — not Creon son of Menoeceus, the Theban uncle of Antigone.