in Greek Antiquity, a mythical king of Corinth, was the son of Lycurgus. 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 Glauce 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. Glauce, unsuspicuous, 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.

Creon, son of Menoeceus, ascended the throne of Thebes at the death of Laïus, who had married his daughter Jocasta. Alarmed by the ravages of the Sphinx, Creon offered his crown and his daughter in marriage to any who could solve the enigma propounded by the monster. Œdipus having accomplished the task, accordingly ascended the throne of Thebes, and married Jocasta, unconscious that she was his mother. By her he had two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, who mutually agreed, after their father's death, to reign in alternate years. Eteocles first ascended the throne by right of seniority; but having refused to resign at the appointed time, his brother attacked him at the head of an army of Argives. The war was decided by a single combat between the two brothers, who killed each other, and Creon governed during the minority of Leontamus, the son of Eteocles. In this capacity he ordained that the Argives, and more particularly Polyneices, who was the cause of all the bloodshed, should remain unburied; and that any who infringed this decree should be buried alive. Antigone, the sister of Polyneices, disobeyed the edict by sprinkling dust upon her brother's body, and was punished accordingly. On this, Haemon, the son of Creon, who was passionately fond of Antigone, killed himself on her grave; and Creon was afterwards killed by Theseus, who made war against him to avenge his inhumanity towards the Argives.