In Antigone, the quotation noted above regarding the "two debts to pay" is given by Tiresias to Creon. In Scene 5, Tiresias comes to Creon to give him advice about his decree and his actions to punish Antigone. In the past, Creon has revered the word of Tiresias, so all assume that here Creon will be open to good counsel. However, Creon accuses Tiresias of taking a bribe to undermine him as king. Tiresias leaves Creon with a prophecy stating that he will pay for the death of Antigone and the unburied body of Polynices with a death of one from his own loins. Creon's eldest son Megareus is already dead--killed in the battle of the Seven Against Thebes--so this leaves the younger son Haemon, who in the Exodus ends up killing himself after finding Antigone dead in her tomb.
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