Question

In Sophocles' Antigone, why does Creon have Antigone locked "in a vault of stone" with a supply of food rather than having her publicly executed as his own law demands?

Answer 1

I think he locked her 'in a vault of stone' because he didn't want to be the one responsible for her death, he was afraid of being judged for that, primarily by his son who was Antigone's fiance, and then by his own people.