Haemon

The son Kreon (Creon) and Eurydike (Eurydice).

Kreon was the king of the city of Thebes and the brother-in-law of the cursed former king, Oedipus; Haemon was in love with the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone, but Kreon refused to allow any type of union because Antigone had defied Kreon by giving her brother, Polynikes (Polynices) a proper burial; for her defiance of Kreon’s order not to bury Polynikes, Kreon had her entombed alive in a cave.

The blind prophet, Teiresias, warned Kreon that his actions were an affront to the Immortals and that if he did not give Polynikes a decent burial and forgive Antigone, he and his family would suffer dire consequences; Kreon relented and buried Polynikes but before he could free Antigone from the cave, she hanged herself.

Haemon was the first to open the cave where Antigone was entombed and when he saw her dead body he flew into a rage and tried, but failed, to kill his father; Haemon then stabbed himself with his sword and died clinging to the body of Antigone; the tragedy Antigone, by Sophokles (Sophocles) tells the entire tragic story.