Question

According to the guard, what did he and fellow guards do when they realized that Polyneices had been buried? Support your answer with evidence from the text.

Answer 1

The guard tells Creon that when they realized Polyneices had been buried, they removed the body and made the burial mound "as if no man had ever been buried there." The guard says, "We scraped the surface of the dust, and made sure the place was clean where the thick dust had covered up the corpse." This shows that the guards tried to cover up the fact that Polyneices had been buried by removing any evidence of the burial.