In
Greek mythology,
Eurydice was the wife of
Creon, a king of
Thebes. She appears briefly in
Sophocles' Antigone, to kill herself after learning, from a messenger, that her son
Haemon and his betrothed,
Antigone, have both committed suicide. She thrusts a sword into her heart and curses Creon for the death of her two sons: Haemon and
Megareus. Haemon killed himself because his father Creon had unjustly killed Antigone, to whom he was engaged.