Creon (king of Corinth)

For other uses, see Creon (Greek myth).

In Greek mythology, Creon (/ˈkriːɒn/; Ancient Greek: Κρέων, romanized: Kreōn, lit. 'ruler'),[1] son of Lycaethus,[2] was a king of Corinth and father of Hippotes and Creusa or Glauce, whom Jason would marry if not for the intervention of Medea.

  1. ^ Robin Hard. The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (2004)
  2. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Medea 20; Hyginus in Fabulae 25 erroneously calls him a son of Menoeceus, apparently confounding him with Creon of Thebes