The result that Polyneices and Eteocles slew each other, thus ending the reason for was the war. Creon saw that Eteocles was given a hero's funeral. but he left Polyneices to rot on the without he had made war Thebes. This meant that his spirits had ground burial because on to wander on earth never at peace. specters to the living. Furthermore. Creon ordered that to buy Polyneices uld be put to death. Antigone. who anyone who shoud had great family loyalty, determined to bury her brother and lay his soul to was the gods' law above kingly orders. had Antigone walled up alive in a tomb. So. Creon Teiresias the seer warned Creon that such an act would bring down the punishment of the gods. Creon then went to undo his mischief. but found Antigone had killed herself with a sword. Haemon, Creon's son and fia of Antigone. saw his beloved dead. so he killed himself, leaving Creon without progeny.