CREON, in Greek Antiquity, a mythical king of Corinth, was the son of Lycæthus. It was during his reign that Jason returned to Greece, bringing with him his Colchian bride, the renowned sorceress Medea. In his visits to the Corinthian court, Jason saw Glaucæ or Creusa, the only daughter of the king, and became enamoured of her. Creon promised to give her to him in marriage on condition that he divorced Medea, by whom he already had two children. Jason consented, and Creon ordered Medea to quit his dominions. She begged to be allowed to remain for a single day; and when this request was granted, she prepared during the interval a poisoned robe which she sent as a present to her rival. Glaucæ, unsuspecting, put it on and soon expired; and Creon, who had kissed her while in the agony of death, was seized with the contagion and likewise perished. This story forms the plot of Euripides' tragedy of Medea.