Why does Creon order Eteocles to be buried with great honors but body left rot on the battlefield in

In Sophocles' tragedy "Antigone", Creon does not order Eteocles to be left unburied; rather, it is Polyneices whose dead body Creon orders to be abandoned and unburied on the battlefield as punishment for his rebellion against Thebes. Eteocles, on the other hand, receives a proper burial with full military honors from Creon himself, as he died defending the city