Creonian

English Pronunciation en /kɹiːˈəʊ.ni.ən/ RP en /kɹiˈoʊ.ni.ən/ GA en əʊniən 4 Etymology 1 From en Creone ian. Adjective - Pertaining to the Creones. 267 With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves. en John Whitaker The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted against Mr. Macpherson 1773 They took possession of the Creonian dominions, in consequence of the laws and prescriptions of the country; as the Creones now assumed a new appellation from them, and were denominated, like them, Ar-gathel, iar-gael, or Ar-gyle. en Thomas Burgeland Johnson The Sportsmen’s Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine 1833 375 Glengary, with part of his family, were returning in the steamer from a visit to some of their more Southron friends: they had passed through the Creonian Canal, and were within but a few miles of Fort William. Etymology 2 From en Creon ian. Adjective en Creonic. en 1997 Law and Power: Critical and Socio-legal Essays Kaarlo Tuori; Zenon Bankowski; Jyrki Uusitalo 247 Antigone is an artist of logos while speaking for eros. This is not speech by paranoon, not speech by Creonian women. This is the speech of polis. en 2002 Literary Paternity, Literary Friendship Stanley Corngold; Gerhard Richter Insofar as it involves a Creonian site of authority, an ethics of a state, such as the Athenian democratic state, Lacan argued, indeed demands a beautiful, heroic, and dead Antigone. en 2012 The Legacy of Marxism Matthew Johnson 144114482X In Sophoclean words, an Antigonian moment is manipulated to climb to power, and a Creonian moment is embraced to retain it, the revolutionary taking 'the heroic attitude of “Somebody has to do the dirty work, so let's do it!”' en 2015 Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies Anna Lisa Tota; Trever Hagen 186 113447749X We may call this the typical Creonian position. Creon exemplifies, in Sophocles' tragedy, the ruler (and victor in the civil war) who seeks to impose this exact view by prohibiting the burial of the leader of the losing side. Anagrams en aceinnor Neorican acronine