Antigone Definition

ăn-tĭgə-nē
noun
The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. She performed funeral rites over her brother's body in defiance of her uncle Creon.
American Heritage
A daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta: she defies the king of Thebes, Creon, by performing funeral rites for her brother, Polynices.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, who defies the king of Thebes, Creon, by burying her brother Polynices.

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Origin of Antigone

  • From Latin Antigonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀντιγόνη (Antigonē)

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Antigone Sentence Examples

  • Again, in regard to Antigone's tragic end Sophocles differs from Euripides, according to whom the calamity was averted by the intercession of Dionysus and was followed by the marriage of Antigone and Haemon.

  • In Hyginus's version of the legend, founded apparently on a tragedy by some follower of Euripides, Antigone, on being handed over by Creon to her lover Haemon to be slain, was secretly carried off by him, and concealed in a shepherd's hut, where she bore him a son Macon.

  • This led to the discovery that Antigone was still alive.

  • On a painted vase the scene of the intercession of Heracles is represented (Heydermann, ZI ber eine nacheuripideische Antigone, 1868).

  • Teiresias' grave was at the Tilphusian spring; but there was a cenotaph of him at Thebes, and also in later times his "observatory," or place for watching for omens from birds, was pointed out (Pausanias ix 16; Sophocles, Antigone, 999).

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