But, a few lines earlier,[95] she implies that there is something hideously novel and unorthodox about the edict of Kreon:
Nor thought I thy commandment of such weight
That one who is mortal thus could overbear
The infallible unwritten laws of Heaven.
Haemon, too, implies[96] that there is something very arbitrary in Kreon’s proclamation. All the citizens of Thebes, he says, repudiate the guilt of Antigone:
She perishes for a most glorious deed,
Who when her own true brother on the earth
Lay weltering after combat in his gore,
Left him not graveless for the carrion fowl
And raw-devouring field-dogs to consume—