Antigone
mythological figure · 6 works · 11 mentions · 36 anchored passages
daughter · maiden · child · girl · sister · child of Oedipus · daughter of the house of your kings · handmaid · my child · poor girl
in the texts
Phoenissae
Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, sister of Eteocles and Polyneices, who views the besieging army from the rooftop.
Antigone, famous child in your father’s house, although your mother allowed you at your entreaty to leave your maiden chamber for the topmost story of the house, to see the Argive army, wait, so that I may first investigate the path, whether there be any of the citizens visible on the road, and reproach, a slight matter to a slave like me, should come to you, my royal mistress;
Exeunt Antigone and the old servant.
Antigone:
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus' devoted daughter and guide, who sees for him, pleads for him, and remains at his side when Theban force threatens him.
Antigone:
But you, Antigone, watch our father here.
Antigone:
Antigone
Daughter of Oedipus who defies Creon's edict by burying her brother Polyneices, grounding her action in kinship, honor, and the unwritten laws of the gods.
No, sister, do not strip me of death’s honor, but let me die with you and make due consecration to the dead.
The power fails me to keep back my streaming tears any longer, when I see Antigone making her way to the chamber where all are laid to rest, now her bridal chamber.
Ismene, my sister, true child of my own mother, do you know any evil out of all the evils bequeathed by Oedipus that Zeus will not fulfil for the two of us in our lifetime?
Stromata
Tragic heroine who defies Creon's proclamation, quoted declaring that Zeus did not proclaim these things.
For it was not Zeus who proclaimed these things to me;
And Antigone too, despising the proclamation of Creon, boldly says:
The Rights of War and Peace
Tragic heroine of Sophocles' play who defies Creon's edict against burying Polynices.
In the Tragedy of the Suppliants, Euripides calls it the law of the Gods, and in the Antigone of Sophocles, the heroine makes the following reply to Creon, who had forbidden any one under pain of death, to give the rites of burial to Polynices, “A prohibition, like this, was not revealed by the supreme will, nor by that heaven-born justice, which has established those laws of respect for the dead:
Against Athenogenes
A renowned courtesan and procuress, mistress and business partner of Athenogenes, who lures the speaker into trusting the fraudulent arrangement.
Perhaps there is nothing very surprising, gentlemen of the jury, in my having been taken in like this by Antigone, a woman who was, I am told, the most gifted courtesan of her time and who has continued to practise as a procuress has ruined the house of of the deme Chollidae which was equal to any.
At all events, to make a long story short, she finally sent for me again later and said that after a long talk with Athenogenes she had with difficulty managed to persuade him to release Midas and both his sons for me for forty minas.
Then must I, who was influenced by the mistress of Athenogenes, accept the contract and be ruined too, even though I can claim the very powerful help of the law, having been compelled by these people to conclude the agreement?