It’s Kreon. The way he’s treated our brothers.
Hasn’t he buried one with honor?
But he’s shamed the other.
Disgraced him!
Eteokles, they say, was laid to rest
according to law and custom.
The dead will respect him in Hades.
But Polynices’ sorry body can’t be touched.

The city is forbidden to mourn him or bury him
–no tomb, no tears