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.
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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.
Oedipus:
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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.
Creon:
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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.
After I had collected it from every source and been a nuisance to my friends I deposited the forty minas in the bank and came to Antigone.
Her manner when she said this could not have been more sincere, and she took the most solemn oaths to prove that she was thinking only of my welfare and was telling me the plain truth.
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?