In Sophocles' Antigone, the dilemma between the nomos of the city and the nomos of the home divides the blood relatives and provokes an inevitable conflict. Creon, the ruler of Thebes, supports the nomos of the states and honors the polis before the oikos. In contrast, Antigone promotes the blood ties of oikos and the divine laws that govern the dead. Creon punishes Antigone for fulfilling her duty to Polyneikes, and in doing so he presents a different perspective and reverse order of priorities. In Antigone, polis and oikos depend on each other and share a symbiotic relationship. As both are unstable, they cannot exist alone without problems. This, in turn with Creon's stubbornness, leads to an untenable encounter. Antigone respects her blood ties, and this pushes her to oppose the laws created by Creon. Even though she recognizes the sin in which Oidipous bequeaths his loved ones, she refuses to abandon her brother and is determined “not to let herself be caught betraying him” (Sophocles, 58). Kreon's man-made laws cannot "keep [her] from my own," and in this she accepts the lineage of her doomed oikos. Furthermore, Antigone justifies herself by honoring her brother above other relationships that she is capable of producing. Antigone states that she "never would have shouldered this burden...if it had been [her] children or [her] husband who had died...no more brothers could ever be born. This was the law by which [she] honored [Polyneikes] above all others” (966-77), the death of Antigone's brother means the extinction of the line and a proper burial is still necessary, even if the traitor. was Eteokle. Antigone's violation of the nomos is necessary, because the dead cannot be resurrected and must be honored, especially those who in...... middle of paper ...... eaten. oikos and polis depend on each other. However, the nature of the two is contradictory, so problems arise, and even more so when there is an inflexible ruler who vehemently honors one and cuts off the other. other with firmness. The conflict between Antigone's priority of the oikos and Creon's opposing priority of the polis has affected the nomos, while producing a locus of catastrophe. Due to Kreon's stubbornness and resulting neglect of the oikos, his home is destroyed and his city is left in chaos. As a ruler, he was unsure of his throne, which led him to disbelieve Antigone and Haimon. Creon prioritized the polis over the oikos, but ultimately the oikos emerges as the determining factor in the city's fate. Creon's intention was to protect the city, but subsequently he only perpetuated the tainted blood running deep within Oedipus' oikos..