Title: Antigone Gives Token Burial to the Body of Her Brother Polynices. In this drawing, the French artist Jules-Eugène Lenepveu (c. 1819–1898) depicts the pivotal scene from the life of the mythical Theban princess, Antigone. Oedipus overcame the creature, and because of this deed he became the king or tyrant of the city, marrying the widowed Queen Jocasta, who (unknown to them both) was Oedipus’ mother. Oedipus, when he reached adulthood in Corinth, also received a prophecy that he would kill his father and wed his mother, yet he assumed this prophecy referred to his adoptive family, Polybus and Merope. the importance of burial which is the basic cause of the rising conflict of the play regarding the right of the burial of Polyneices who had betrayed his country, escaped from exile and brought fire and death … Antigone is telling Ismene the consequences if someone buries Polyneices' corpse. Antigone, his sister, buries him anyway. 15 Nov. 2006