Antigone, daughter of the late king Oedipus, secretly buries her brother Polyneices despite Creon’s decree that his body remain unburied. She is discovered by Creon’s watchmen and brought before Creon. In a heated exchange she argues that divine law obliges her to honor the dead, superseding any mortal command. Creon, unmoved, sentences her to be sealed alive in a rock‑hewn chamber. Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s betrothed, confronts his father, begging for mercy and declaring he will die alongside Antigone if she is not spared. Their argument fails. Later, the blind seer Teiresias arrives, warning Creon that the gods are angry and that Antigone’s punishment will bring disaster. Creon, still stubborn, initially dismisses the omen, but when the warning is repeated he finally repents and rushes to free Antigone. He reaches the cavern only to find Antigone has hanged herself, and Haemon has taken his own life beside her. Overcome with grief, Creon returns to the palace, where his queen, Eurydice, learns of her son’s death and, in despair, stabs herself to the heart.