The belief and concept of dishonor in the Greek and Colombian culture of "Antigone" by Sophocles and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, is a decisive aspect which blinds the moral values ​​of the characters. It is evident that in both Greek and Colombian societies, a family or individual without honor is an outcast compared to the community. As honor plays a drastic role in shaping the culture of the society. Thus the belief that a perpetrator has brought dishonor to the family or community foreshadows punishment for the individual, often conveyed through death. Sophocles provides a setting in his play Antigone, where the honor code of rules and principles that govern the Greek community, are based on Creon's patriarchy of immoral natural law. Where the worst death is the “obscured” one (97), whose foggy context brings dishonor to the individual and his family. Polynecies is an example; Sophocles uses it to highlight the meaning of burial in Greek society. Polynecies is a victim of Creon's code of honor, which through grotesque diction, Sophocles describes his body as immorally exposed to "vultures" left "unlamented and unburied" (29) after he fought miserably by turning against his brother in a battle for Thebes, in which he turned against him. Causing him to '[die] lawlessly' (59) bringing great dishonor to the corpse as it is with disrespect, left unburied out of tyranny, but also condemning him forever and dishonoring his family. Creon's laws are imperfect, harsh, and immoral, taking on the "gods who live forever" (788), to the point where his actions "take possession of [his] good mind" (791) and deprive him of thought moral. Creon's restrictive democracy motivates Polynecia's sister, Antigone, who... in the middle of the paper... shadows a death through the blinding process of moral values ​​and actions taken by an individual who, or whose family has been dishonored and they wish to regain their dignity. Sophocles in Antigone addresses the theme of dishonor through the cultural value of burial in Greek society; Gabriel Garcia Márquez, however, condemns the legacy of the marriage to honor in Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Both cultural norms manage in context to inflict on the character's family honor, which leads them to take immoral and ruthless actions that lead to the innocent deaths of Antigone and Santiago Nasser, both innocent individuals. Works Cited García, Márquez Gabriel and Gregory Rabassa. Chronicle of a death foretold: a novel. New York: Vintage International, 2003. PrintSophocles and Paul Woodruff. Antigone. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2001. Print