NOUN
- (Greek mythology) the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus
How To Use Creon In A Sentence
- Then snatching up some of the flowers, which ornamented the table, he swore that Juba should henceforward be called Anacreon, and that he deserved to be crowned with roses by the hand of beauty. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
- Fontaine has prettily set it off, and an anonymous writer has composed it in Latin Anacreontic verses; and at length our Prior has given it with equal gaiety and freedom. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
- I am [3] the daughter of Menœceus, and Creon my brother was born of the same mother; me they call Jocasta (for this name [4] my father gave me), and The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
- Creon stood up and leaned against the ash tree and folded his arms.
- Anacreon", written during this time, had to be performed in the small Theatre de la Foire Saint-Germain (where he directed the performances from 1789-1792) because the grand opera house was closed to him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- The deuteragonist could have played the nurse, Jason, and messenger, with the tritagonist playing the tutor, Creon, and Aegeus.
- This form of the Trochaic is sometimes called Anacreontic, but very erroneously, as Anacreon's metre is quite different.
- Her breathily sexy aria with Creonte (an excellent Iestyn Davies) was one of several show-stoppers. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio
- My first act, in music strongly characterized, was Tasso; the second in tender harmony, Ovid; and the third, entitled Anacreon, was to partake of the gayety of the dithyrambus. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
- Shakespeare's last two sonnets are variations on an anacreontic epigram from The Greek Anthology.
