Creon of Thebes in the context of "Eteocles"

In Greek mythology, Hipponome (Ancient Greek: Ἱππονόμης means "horse-keeper") was the daughter of Menoeceus from Thebes and thus sister of Creon and Jocasta. She married Alcaeus, son of Perseus and Andromeda, and had children by him, a son Amphitryon and two daughters Anaxo and Perimede. In other accounts, the wife of Alcaeus was named Astydamia, daughter of Pelops or Laonome, daughter of Guneus.

In Greek mythology, Menoeceus (/məˈniːsiəs, -sjuːs/; Ancient Greek: Μενοικεύς Menoikeús "strength of the house" derived from menos "strength" and oikos "house") was the name of two Theban characters. They are related by genealogy, the first being the grandfather of the second.

• Menoeceus, father of Creon, Jocasta and Hipponome and both grandfather and father-in-law of Oedipus. He was the Theban son of Pentheus and a descendant of the Spartoi through his grandfather Echion.
• Menoeceus, son of Creon and possibly Eurydice, named after his grandfather. According to Hyginus and Statius, during the reign of Eteocles when the Seven against Thebes laid siege to the city, Creon's son committed suicide by throwing himself from the walls. This was in concordance with Tiresias foretelling that if anyone of the Spartoi should perish freely as sacrifice to Ares, Thebes would be freed from disaster. The Thebans were ultimately victorious. The battle is memorialized in Seven Against Thebes, the play by Aeschylus. Some records say that that Menoeceus was the grandfather of Creon and Jocasta and his son (Creon and Jocasta's father) was named Oscalus. The Greek writer Pausanias visited the site of Menoeceus tomb in the 2nd century AD and recorded that Menoeceus committed suicide "in obedience to the oracle from Delphi, at the time when Polyneices and the host with him arrived from Argos. On the tomb of Menoeceus grows a pomegranate-tree. If you break through the outer part of the ripe fruit, you will then find the inside like blood. This pomegranate-tree is still flourishing."

A later Menoeceus was a contemporary of Epicurus, to whom the philosopher wrote a letter summarizing his ethical doctrines.

In Greek mythology, Eurydice (/jʊəˈrɪdɪsi/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη, romanized: Eurydíkē, lit. 'wide justice', derived from εὐρύς, eurýs, 'wide' and δίκη, díkē, 'justice'), may refer to the following characters:

• Eurydice, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
• Eurydice, wife of King Aeolus of Aeolia and mother of his sons, Sisyphus, Salmoneus and Cretheus. She may be identical to Enarete, the daughter of Deïmachus, who was commonly called the mother of these progeny.
• Eurydice, a Libyan princess as one of the 50 Danaïdes, daughter of King Danaus and the naiad Polyxo, who married (and murdered) Dryas.
• Eurydice, one of the Cadmiades, the six daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia in a rare version of the myth. Her sisters were Ino, Agaue, Semele, Kleantho and Eurynome.
• Eurydice, a Spartan princess as the daughter of King Lacedaemon. She was the mother of Danae by her husband King Acrisius of Argos.
• Eurydice, daughter of Adrastus, wife of Ilus, and mother of King Laomedon.
• Eurydice, wife of Neleus, mother of Thrasymedes.
• Eurydice, an Elean princess as the daughter of King Pelops of Pisa. She was the wife of Electryon, and grandmother of Heracles.
• Eurydice, wife of Orpheus who attempted to bring her back from the Underworld.
• Eurydice, wife of King Creon of Thebes and mother of Haemon, Menoeceus and Megara.
• Eurydice, eldest daughter of Clymenus and wife of Nestor.
• Eurydice, an Argive princess as the daughter of King Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and thus, sister to Alcmaeon, Amphilochus, Demonassa, Alcmena and Alexida.
• Eurydice, wife of King Lycurgus (of Nemea) and mother of Opheltes.
• Eurydice, wife of Aeneas, according to Lescheos and writer of the epic poem Cypria.