Which Character Is Arrested for Burying Polyneices?

Antigone wants to bury her brother Polyneices even though it is illegal.

Who was arrested for burying Polyneices?

Antigone is arrested for trying to give her brother Polyneices a proper burial. After their father Oedipus's death, there was some shakeup in the kingdom. The new king of Thebes, Creon, considered Polyneices a traitor because he fought against Thebes in the battle with Argos.

What happens in Sophocles Antigone?

Antigone is a tragedy written by Sophocles in the year 441 BCE and is a play about the aftermath of a civil war in which the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, kill each other, where the new king and their successor, Creon, tries to punish Polyneices for his disloyalty by not burying him properly.